Places mooseontheloose Wants to Go

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

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

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

Back in the tiny USSR.