Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

The saddest little diner in New York.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.