Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

An island said to shake with the current.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

"The country that ate itself."

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.