Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.