Places joyzbst Wants to Go

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

On a trail in Portugal's Barão de São João National Forest, a pile of faces look up at hikers from the forest floor.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

This museum contains a vast array of puppets and marionettes from all over the world, featuring incredible works by Portuguese creators.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.

Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.

An underground spring in a labyrinthine cave system, decorated with stalagmites and stalactites.

A prehistoric cave in Spain contains paintings dating back to the Ice Age.

The largest cave on the island of Menorca was likely the site of Iron Age rites and rituals.

It's believed these prehistoric individuals were the victims of cannibalism.

This humble bench is considered the most beautiful in the world.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

Stop by, and you'll receive a map to two well-preserved ancient petroglyph sites.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

The fragmented remains of a massive public bath connected to the city's water supply.