Places Gradius Wants to Go

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.

This chest hospital with a dark, haunted past serves as a fitting set for horror films and a paradise for ghost hunters.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.