Places Sun Wants to Go

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

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

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

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.