Places witchlifts Wants to Go

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This ancient burial site is a fascinating reminder of Malta's prehistoric past.

These purpose-built WWII air raid shelters, which run half a kilometer under the town of Mellieħa, are among the longest in Malta.

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

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

Inside this church are the alleged remains of the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Where the legendary wizard sleeps for eternity, according to Arthurian lore.

This cave complex might provide a link between the Neolithic and the Classical Greek period.

A curious memorial to the Berlin Wall, German division, the war, and those who died at the wall.

A symbolic cemetery in a suburban square marks the birthplace of Poland's WWII resistance movement.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.