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ickaimp

Traveller with a sense of humour.

https://www.instagram.com/ickaimp/

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St. Anthony's Tongue

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Allison

Added by Allison

Cologne, Germany

Church of St. Ursula

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

michelle

Added by michelle

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Shrine of Saint John Neumann

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The Relic Crypt of St. Helena at Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

CadaverFormosus

Added by CadaverFormosus

Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France

Grotto of Saint Genevieve

18th century underground pilgrimage site, dedicated to a Saint that did something...

Akazem

Added by Akazem

Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Montparnasse Cemetery

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Allison

Added by Allison

The Wax and Bone Relics of Saint Vincent de Paul

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Musee de la Magie

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Added by mbison

Chapelle Notre Dame de la Medaille Miraculeuse

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Cannonball of the Hotel de Sens

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Arènes de Lutèce

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

cultureandstuff

Added by cultureandstuff

Basilique Notre-Dame-des-Victoires

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Lilai Licata

Added by Lilai Licata

The Relics of St. Genevieve at St-Etienne-du-Mont

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

CadaverFormosus

Added by CadaverFormosus

House of Nicolas Flamel

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Allison

Added by Allison

Cours des Miracles (Court of Miracles)

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

AaronNetsky

Added by AaronNetsky

Plastinarium

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

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Museum of Vampires

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Chester, England

Chester Rows

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Added by humanist

St. Leonard's Church Basement Ossuary

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Added by Elielux

Wiltshire, England

Avebury

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Cheddar, England

The Cheddar Man and Cannibals Museum

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Added by nitikp

Toronto, Ontario

Toronto's Half House

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

Kergin

Added by Kergin

Toronto, Ontario

Secret Swing