Places laurtom Wants to Go

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

The ruins of this old church are slowing sinking into the sand.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.