Places catlightly Wants to Go

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

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

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.