Places johnbrandon Wants to Go

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

This stone was once used by druids to determine a person's innocence or guilt.

Considered one of the most haunted places in Europe, this 800-year-old castle was home to noble prisoners.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This phallic temple was erected in the forest to honor the tragic death of a samurai lord's son.

One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.

Templar knights fleeing persecution are said to have left this sword in stone as a landmark in 1307.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The oldest candy store in England has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This lighthouse was crafted as penitence for the theft of wine bound for a monastery.

A shrine dedicated to a 10th-century samurai emperor, whose head is not buried on site (contrary to popular belief).

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

A kitsch shrine dedicated to the ogre-slaying folktale hero born from a peach.

Believed to hold the remains of Japan's most infamous fox spirit, this stone is said to kill those who dare approach.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare enter it.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.