Places lizzbee Wants to Go

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

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

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

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

A vast necropolis where you'll find the elaborate mausoleums of Argentinian tango stars.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.