Places katrinastone Wants to Go

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

A hidden gem in the middle of the city's infamous Jewelry Quarter.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.

This historic cemetery is home to the largest private mausoleum in Europe.

Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.

This abandoned ship has remained in place since it ran aground in 1998.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

An ancient cemetery hides behind a line of disparate chapels.

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

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 church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

This mysterious pyramid is said to be part of a complex web of occult and Freemason symbols.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

An unusual resting place built into the hill with an amazing view of Lake Como.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

A Nuragic tomb, a Roman tomb, and a Byzantine Church, all hidden inside a rock.

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