Places LibrariNerd Wants to Go

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

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

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The largest drain hole in the world.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.