Places dawnrfifer Wants to Go

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

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

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

This tranquil churchyard in the heart of England’s mining country whispers tales of both triumph and tragedy.

Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Small church built in the 19th century for whites and slaves to worship together.