Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

The remains of an ancient settlement in one of the oldest archeological sites in South America.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."