Places addi Wants to Go

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Tucked away in this local museum is a piece of sporting equipment that dates to the 16th-century.

Legend says this rock was once a chopping block for public executions.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The tragic heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton built her seventh husband this Japanese-inspired palace in Mexico.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.