Places johnbrandon Wants to Go

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

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

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

Daikon radishes are offered to the Japanese Buddhist counterpart of the Hindu god Ganesha at this historic hilltop temple.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

In this museum, visitors are invited to touch the art.

A series of caves, tunnels, and wells filled with fascinating figures and symbols.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

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

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.