Places Goksu Wants to Go

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

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

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.