Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

Forgotten jail cells beneath this Scottish town hall are now used for delightfully artful storage.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

A palace destined to never house a king.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.