Places Claire043 Wants to Go

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

These murals stand as reminders to the troubled history of this Northern Ireland city.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.