Places babewithclaws Wants to Go

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

Local legends say that a giant who tried to destroy a nearby church lived in this rock cave.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.