Places simonele Wants to Go

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.