Places C L Raven Wants to Go

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

A memorial for public executions that dates back to the 14th century.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

One of the city's oldest pubs displays a skull said to belong to the country's last witch burned at the stake.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

This ordinary-looking mailbox has a rather explosive history.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Distressing images of the Last Judgement adorn the walls of this medieval sanctuary named for St. Patrick.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

An annual goat race takes place within the walls of this medieval castle.

Once home to the episcopal curia of the local diocese.