Places justinemeeus Wants to Go

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

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

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

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

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.