Places ecstein Wants to Go

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

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

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

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

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.