Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

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

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Salt cured mummies continue to turn up in this Iranian mine.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Stone age urban planning.

The biggest exposition of dental equipement in Europe. And a Mummy.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.