Places anfreba Wants to Go

A temple made famous by Japanese Buddhist monks who sacrificed themselves at sea.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The largest underground church in Europe.

Legend has it this 11th-century castle was paid a visit from the devil.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

A French museum of wrought iron.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.