Places Rosa Elliott Wants to Go

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The place where World War I began.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

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

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

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

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.