Places Viv Gee Wants to Go

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The middle finger of modernity.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”