Wallachia, Romania
Poenari Castle
The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.
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Wallachia, Romania
The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.
Snagov Island, Romania
This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Hunedoara, Romania
This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A vast necropolis where you'll find the elaborate mausoleums of Argentinian tango stars.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.
Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Paris, France
The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.
Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Paris, France
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.