Places Luis Morato Wants to Go

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Walls of stone rise up from sinkholes caused by underwater erosion.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

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

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

An arresting arch punched straight through a mountain provides one of the most scenic spots, and challenging climbs, on the planet.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.