Places caitmckay Wants to Go

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

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

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

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

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

This massive chalk hill carving is one of England's most beloved giant horse geoglyphs.

The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.

It's believed Matilda Fitzwalter's life was the basis for the famed literary figure.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

Modernist design and funerary customs meet Spartan traditions in this one-of-a-kind graveyard.

Constructed during the 7th century this is one of the oldest largely intact Christian churches in England.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.