Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

The middle finger of modernity.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

Death road of Bolivia.