Places emmaatlas Wants to Go

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Artist and musician Will Menter creates musical sculptures.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

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

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

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

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

A village of art and exotic creations.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.