Places gmetalera59 Wants to Go

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

Japan Railways' southernmost train station offers a view of a volcano and a mailbox said to grant happiness.

A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.

A whimsical shrine with a porcelain Torii gate, split in half by an active train line.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

The only Buddhist temple in Japan dedicated to breasts.

This reconstructed castle was once the base of the “Devil King” who almost united the feudal warring states.

A mountaintop Buddhist temple with panoramic views of Hiroshima.

A stunning, storied set of waterfalls you can walk to from the city’s main train station in less than 15 minutes

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.

This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.