Places abauman Wants to Go

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.

The world's first transgenic bovine has been preserved at the museum where he spent his final years—though his old stable is now a cafe.

Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.

An art installation memorializing a tram stop, which became a tram stop.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

The mirrored section takes the shape of Hebrew characters when viewed from above.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

The former home of Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint now houses a collection of Berber art and artifacts.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Inside, visitors are treated to the rich history of sugar farming and its impact on Hawaiian society.

These ruins of a Phoenician sanctuary in Sicily have a dark history.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

A beloved pet is buried in among the many old and famous residents of a Northern Ireland cemetery.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.