Places IgFan Wants to Go

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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 German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

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

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

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

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.