Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

This remote castle was built to be a wealthy businessman's palace of vice but is now simply a historic vacation cottage.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.