Places vaneiribarren Wants to Go

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Something's watching you.

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

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

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

A maze of underground tunnels beneath one of the most beautiful forts in Serbia.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

An abandoned 6th-century monastery features a medieval map of the known world.

This castle has links to Portugal’s founding and struggles for independence.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

A devasting 2020 fire left this historic seminary in ruins.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.