Places OccultTheory Wants to Go

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

Back in the tiny USSR.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.