Places simonele Wants to Go

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

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

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.