Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.