Places Caroline Thrift Wants to Go

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

A local prank turned town icon.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.