Places remcrae Wants to Go

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

The sanctuary holds what was once believed to be the saint's incorruptible tongue.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Volcanic irregularity? Odd erosion? Alien eggs? Local legends compete to explain these strange orbs.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.