Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Australia's largest medical museum featuring a 19th-century pharmacy.

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.