Places oldarchitecture Wants to Go

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.