Places marchudgins Wants to Go

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The world's longest known cave system.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.