Places nocturnalhecate Wants to Go

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

A Greek tomb discovered under a palace in Naples displays ornate funeral decorations.

A unique collection illustrates the history of the masked commedia dell'arte character.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

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

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

Overlooked archeological site close to the city of Patras.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.