Places Andrea IX Wants to Go

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

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

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

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

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

Annual street carnival celebrating Indonesian heritage.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.