A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Also known as "Robin Hood's tree," this tree became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down in an act of vandalism.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

One of the best-preserved, yet least visited stone circle sites in Cumbria.

A 2,000-ton rock resting in a state of a delicate balance.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

Legends say this red sandstone monolith and the dozens of smaller boulders that surround it were once a coven of witches—before a Scottish wizard turned them all to stone.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."