Places katsmitharts Wants to Go

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

This moving cemetery sphere is a slowly rolling stone.