Places ephemeral epiphany Wants to Go

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

An idyllic hotel that gave its name to a supposed shadow government.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

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

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.