Places dmatlock Wants to Go

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

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

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.