Places Cattheripper Wants to Go

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

These medieval tunnels provided water to the city above through centuries of civil war and plague.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

Preserved portions of Athens's ancient defenses are on display in a subterranean parking garage.

Only open for two days a year, this church links ancient Greek and modern Christian celebrations.

A solemn reminder of the infamous World War II war crime that massacred almost all the men in a small Greek town.

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.

These sea caves are the source of Xigia Beach's distinct aroma.

The ruins of an ancient mansion sits in front of and underneath a contemporary art gallery.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.