Places astrodeluxe Wants to Go

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

A quiet museum preserves the extraordinary relics, processional treasures, and centuries-old traditions behind Catania's famous Feast of Saint Agatha.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

The window above the urinal in the men's restroom is a giant periscope that offers a panoramic view of Eagle Harbor.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Thousands of rock-cut tombs fill the cliffs of this Sicilian nature preserve.

According to legend, after Hades pulled Persephone into the underworld, one of her attendant nymphs cried so much that her tears formed this spring.

According to Greek mythology, this natural spring is the home of a freshwater nymph.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

A monumental private palace behind an unassuming facade, with astonishing interiors including a rococo ballroom.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

Smack-dab in Campania’s volcanic fields, this scenic lake was once thought to be the gate of hell.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.