Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.