Places LisaLii Wants to Go

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

A museum dedicated to the history of the diamond trade in the Netherlands.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

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

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.