Places Added by Annetta Black

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.