Places Saradactyl Wants to Go

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.

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

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.