Places summermaddux Wants to Go

This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

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

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The site where the Spanish first landed in Mexico was once a thriving Mesoamerican city.

This figure was cut into the hillside in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

A dozen cast iron leopards stand guard along the length of Aberdeen's Union Bridge.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

The middle finger of modernity.

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.