Places Kriket42 Wants to Go

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.