Places Eldrities Wants to Go

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Venice's island of the dead.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

A small museum that celebrates the history and culture of the LGBTQ community in England.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

Late Mesolithic settlements and Bronze Age burials have been excavated at this ancient woodland on the top of a hill.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."