Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

The loneliest island in New York.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.