Places babewithclaws Wants to Go

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

To fit bodies into this Renaissance crypt, they were first left to decompose in the crypt's rotting room.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

A hidden medieval crypt where a famous legend says the devil used to teach black magic.

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

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.