Places rachelelizabethmaher Wants to Go

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

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

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.