Places Aurelio Voltaire Wants to Go

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

The second generation of a mighty volcano rises from the sea.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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