Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

This unconventionally beautiful landscape possesses stunning scenery you won't easily forget.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

This 11th-century structure is one of the oldest churches in Romania.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

The giantess welcomes travelers to a small Saskatchewan town with a traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

A mysterious phallic rock on the grounds of a Buddhist monastery.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.

An independent naturist colony amidst 1000-year-old ruins.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.