Places garageclaudia Wants to Go

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This recipe is set in stone.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.