Places summermaddux Wants to Go

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

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

This massive, now-retired coal-mine excavator is said to resemble a mythical dragon.

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

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

Historic bar where the Singapore Sling cocktail was invented.

A T. Rex statue dressed as Mister Rogers honors the children’s-television pioneer.

This rocking chair headstone is allegedly haunted by the spirit of a young girl named Pearl.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This iconic neon jester is a local landmark that you might recognize from his cameos in film and television.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

One of Hawaiʻi’s most notable historic petroglyph fields lies within a major resort.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

A pair of whimsical homes in Texas shaped like oversized Western wear.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.