Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

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

The sacristy of this church contains remains and relics of members of the Aragonese royal family.

Richard Luke Concanen never set foot on American soil.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The Bourbon royal family had this unique octagonal hunting "cottage" built on a tiny islet in Lake Fusaro.