The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.