Places Molly McBride Jacobson Wants to Go

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

An eclectic mix of influences rot together in harmony in this India necropolis.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.