Places janetcetera Wants to Go

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.