Places AnAn Wants to Go

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.