Places Crawdie Wants to Go

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

New York's oldest magic store.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.