Italy
Cattedrale Vegetale (Tree Cathedral)
Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.
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Italy
Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.
Rome, Italy
This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.
Triora, Italy
The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."
Cortenova, Italy
The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.
La Maddalena, Italy
Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.
Milan, Italy
This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.
Rome, Italy
Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Wingdale, New York
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Manchester, England
This haunted 17th-century pub was moved to a new city when it was already almost 300 years old.
Childersburg, Alabama
Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.
Chamblee, Georgia
An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.
Burbank, California
An oddity shop filled with loads of bones, skulls, crafting materials, vintage taxidermy, and more.
Jiufen, Taiwan
A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.
Lochgilphead, Scotland
This ruins of an abandoned Victorian-era mental health facility.
Chardon, Ohio
Pay your respects at the final resting place of the man behind one of the best-known names in food.
London, England
A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.
Asque, France
A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."