Places lilyroulstone Wants to Go

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

Romania's only crater lake with water as pure as if distilled.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.