Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

Beautifully carved tombstones fill this unmarked graveyard, uniquely situated near the village's famous stone wine cellars.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

This remote Himalayan temple is in danger of being completely washed away by a melting glacier.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Traces of the thriving lake trade that once linked the Soviet Union with Mongolia.

Four antique Baldwin trains are kept on display in the Mal Tiempo train depot.

Cuba's historical trains remind natives of their country's sugary sweet past.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.