Places marcwithasea Wants to Go

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

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

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.