Places alotrfan Wants to Go

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An American crash site from WWII is marked deep in a Swedish forest.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Graffiti-clad ruins of an abandoned 1980s industrial site with a toxic past are nestled among residential houses.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

WWII rocket launchpad in rural Germany and site of operation backfire.

Remnants of the Nazis' occupation of Denmark linger along the sand.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

A mosaic tribute to a hitchhiking cat turned national celebrity.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.