Places ecstein Wants to Go

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.