Places lukefishfrench Wants to Go

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

This incredibly diverse research station is one of the largest tropical botanical gardens in the world.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

Iconic red and white plaques show the creative names invented to navigate the city streets.

A hacienda that features all things uniquely Yucatán.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

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