Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

The remains of an abandoned air force hospital located on a redeveloped Air Force base.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.