Places remcrae Wants to Go

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

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

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.