Places Claire043 Wants to Go

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.

A World War I German experimental concrete plant, hidden deep in a French forest.

A road that ends in the middle of a farmer’s field is one of the only remnants of this once-famous racetrack.

A haunting museum chronicling the bloodiest battlefield of World War I.

The ruins of a military fortification sit atop this mountain.

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.