Places Aika Wants to Go

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.