Places acrig Wants to Go

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

The twice-stolen hand of an alleged card cheat, with its final set of playing cards.

In a crypt underneath this church lies a naturally mummified vicar whose story is surrounded by mystery.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

These magnificently sculpted tombs represent Spain's own legendary version of "Romeo and Juliet."

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

Located in the middle of public park, this cave built in the early 19th century houses an ancient stone sarcophagus.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Halfway up a volcano at the edge of the world’s largest salt flats is a cave with seven mummies.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

A grueling 699-step stairway to a heavenly view of the island of Saint Helena.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.

An 11th-century Viking gravestone in a Victorian parish church graveyard.