Places tomod05 Wants to Go

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.