Places Luciferasi Wants to Go

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

Spring that emits water and fire at the same time is said to have remedial properties, and sparked its own religion.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Local legend says that whoever burns down this 2,000-year-old tree will only have seven days to live.

Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.

Atop a small Armenian hilltop adorned with many forms, and carvings, these stones tell a whimsical tale from a fictional world.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.

Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

The largest collection of death masks in Ukraine.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.