Places disgrace Wants to Go

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.

Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

This ancient holy well is older than much of the city that surrounds it.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”