Places ilja Wants to Go

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

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.