Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

This castle-fortress is a living example of the transition from medieval defenses to modern fortifications.