The middle finger of modernity.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

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

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.