Places Jessica Leigh Hester Wants to Go

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

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

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

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

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.