Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.