Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

Haunted tuberculosis hospital built by the patients.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

A forgotten monument to Yugoslavian freedom.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

A Romanian church built from one single oak.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.