Places mooseontheloose Wants to Go

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This quirky Korean eatery is built to resemble an equally quirky vintage camera.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

These lesser-known Maltese catacombs date back over 1,700 years.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

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

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.