Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

This eerily opulent residential museum is home to a haunting local legend.

The ruins of an ancient pyramid built by the mysterious Chupícuaro civilization.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

The unique collection of gifts includes braids of human hair, a spoon, and a Virgin made of bread.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.