Places Edited by Mike Bison

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

A stone wall that mysteriously moved three feet from its foundation.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.