Places todesgleich Wants to Go

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

This small hermitage on Mount Scalambra was built near what some believe is the miraculous imprint of Saint Benedict's hand.

This small hermitage is located along an ancient route that connected the Tiber and Rieti valleys.

This beautiful Romanesque church preserves stunning medieval frescoes and the excavations of a Roman market town.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

The charred, dead skeleton of an oak tree is said to have consoled a dying 16th-century Italian poet.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

Templar knights fleeing persecution are said to have left this sword in stone as a landmark in 1307.

Was this cave created by Hercules's wrath, the devil, or volcanic activity?

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

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

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

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