Places Basilisk Wants to Go

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.

An 18th-century hunting lodge turned haunted Baroque palace.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

In a crypt underneath this church lies a naturally mummified vicar whose story is surrounded by mystery.

The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.

This park is home to around 500 bird species.

One of the most detailed and historically accurate collections of Ugandan artifacts depicting Bahima tribal history, culture, and daily life.

Uganda's smallest savannah park is home to over 350 species of birds and mammals.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

An aeronautical-themed resort forged around rusty relics from the golden age of air travel.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Part of this hotel resides in Switzerland, the other in France, and the border splits the honeymoon suite.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

An abandoned village that resides along the mountains of the Aosta Valley.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.