Places AnAn Wants to Go

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

When the river dries up, these stones start talking.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

Human figures and faces are carved into the sandstone surrounding this cave in Czechia.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

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

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A memorial to Brazil's little-known role in World War II.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

A unique collection of five Roman burial grounds right next to the road.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.