Places bluestargirl Wants to Go

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Two bronze wolves atop this large rock honor the "Wolves of Tuscany" brigade of World War I.

One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.