Places Simpluree Wants to Go

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

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

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

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

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.

This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.