Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates the creative force of architecture as he explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and monuments. Dan travels to the Czech Republic, revealing the macabre tale of a chapel decorated with human bones. In Guatemala he encounters the Yaxha Mayan pyramids, sites of brutal human sacrifice, before finally coming face-to-face with death itself in Varanasi in India, a sacred Hindu town where people come to die.

丹揭示了在捷克共和国人骨教的故事和玛雅金字塔的观点，以及关于玛雅世界末日的预言。他还参观了在意大利热那亚壮观的斯塔列诺公墓。印度教徒的心中圣地古城瓦拉纳西