Places Vivek Gadre Wants to Go

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Delhi's only female ruler is buried in this neglected, forgotten tomb.

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Beautifully carved tombstones fill this unmarked graveyard, uniquely situated near the village's famous stone wine cellars.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

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

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

Hundreds of small crosses have been carved into the bark of the trees outside this small Estonian village.

Mummies preserved naturally for seven centuries.

Hundreds of intricately carved Armenian stone crosses can be found within this huge cemetery.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

This unassuming oasis elevated just above the busy streets of Jerusalem offers one of the best views of the Old City.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.