Places monicakanellis Wants to Go

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

One of the oldest remaining Catholic churches in England is home to the hand of a 7th-century saint.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The remains of a once-famous hotel that also acted as an artist colony.

Hilltop garden on the site of an old fortress overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

Every year, a sparkling cave is sculpted in the icy heart of a glacier.

A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.

The site where two doves fell in love.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.