Places nocturnalhecate Wants to Go

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

The hearts of 54 Habsburg royals received special burials here separate from their bodies.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.