Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.