Places MadMad Wants to Go

Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

Two bulls enter. One leaves a champion—but neither loses its life.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Hungarian self-built castle.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

The devil masks on display at this small museum are part of an annual festival that has been taking place for centuries.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.