Places INK Wants to Go

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.