Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.