Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

This impressive rupestrian engraving dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic period.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

The corpse bride of Portugal.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.

On this Polish road, an optical illusion makes cars seem to roll uphill.

The biggest exposition of dental equipement in Europe. And a Mummy.

At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.