Places lostlara Wants to Go

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

Venice's island of the dead.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

One of Sydney's oldest graveyards hides in plain sight behind a hospital.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

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

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.