Places otidk Wants to Go

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

In legend, this ancient dolmen was said to have been created when a troll tried to destroy a church.

A public display of random paleontology.

Four alabaster giants contemplate the tides on the shore of Denmark.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

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

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.