Places gwenleif Wants to Go

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

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

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The place where World War I began.

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Buddhist monk remarkably preserved because he started the mummification process while still living.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.