Places caitmckay Wants to Go

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The gravestones in this historic cemetery are carved with mysterious faces.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.