Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.