Places catlightly Wants to Go

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.