Places Kriket42 Wants to Go

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Mine your own precious stones.