Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.

This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.