Places sndikic Wants to Go

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

The great Danube river starts here.

This remarkable museum sprung from one of the most important prehistoric archaeological sites in the world.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.