Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

Where the oil industry began.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Abandoned substation turned village treasure.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

A precariously balanced goose-shaped boulder with a dark legend.