Places kosmasc Wants to Go

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

This Art Nouveau mansion was used as the "House of the Screaming Child" in Dario Argento’s giallo classic.

This Late Gothic building that once housed Erasmus is now known as the filming location of "Suspiria."

This chest hospital with a dark, haunted past serves as a fitting set for horror films and a paradise for ghost hunters.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

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

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.

The iconic blonde bombshell has a familial connection to this town in southern Norway.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.