A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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