Places mkowal Wants to Go

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

Carved, egg-shaped stone with no explanation.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.