Places aRedLetterLife Wants to Go

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

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

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

A centuries-old fortress city lies in ruin.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

A mecca for India's Jains.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.