Places NycterisBerna Wants to Go

An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

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

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.