Places heidin617 Wants to Go

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

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

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

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."