Places NycterisBerna Wants to Go

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.