London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."