Places Sahakiel Wants to Go

A late-medieval Dutch castle with trick fountains in its whimsical water gardens.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.