Places johnbrandon Wants to Go

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

The head of a legendary creature allegedly killed during colonial times is now on display at a local restaurant.

Believed to be an execution site used by King Arthur after he was embarrassed.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

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

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

Does being buried standing up help you get into heaven faster?

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This carved stone slab marked the grave of a local dragon slayer, who makes a killer pie.

On the upper deck of this church-owned parking garage stand eight pillars topped with different Catholic saints.

One of the oldest bridges in Norwich was used during the English witch trials and is said to be haunted.

See tools once used for processing this coffee-substitute plant before sampling its flavor firsthand.