Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.

Hungarian self-built castle.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.