A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

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

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

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

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

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

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

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.