Places cmstoelb Wants to Go

A quartet of temple guardian statues that allegedly cry at night for being forbidden from wrestling.

A collection of whimsical metal sculptures scattered along a forest path.

A monument to the Turkish librarian who delivered books on the back of a donkey.

These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

The corner walls of a primary school showcase a Mexican version of memento mori.

Idaho’s largest, deepest limestone cave is known for its quirky rock formations and bat population.

The oldest operating hotel in Illinois enjoys a historic (and some say haunted) past.

This mysterious sign claims an American astronomer haunts the building—but is it true?

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

A pair of rivaling shrines dedicated to Lady Oiwa, the most famous vengeful ghost in Japan.

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This statue in Holland Park might be one of London’s oldest outdoor statues, but its exact origins are unknown.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

Local legend claims that this is the final resting place of an infamous cannibal hag.

Beautiful and terrifying masks displayed in the island’s only mask library.

From mid-September to early November, dreamy fields of pink muhly grass spring up all over South Korea.

The museum showcases the largest private silver collection in Canada, featuring 3,333 pieces.

One of England’s oldest and most haunted inns may have inspired the legend of Sweeney Todd.

Circleville is seriously smitten with this giant gourd.

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

This fifth-century church is one of the oldest Christian sites in the Balkans.