Places CateTroutman Wants to Go

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

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

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.