Places savij Wants to Go

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.

The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.