Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

One car at a time please.

Bizarre Cavern.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Salt cured mummies continue to turn up in this Iranian mine.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.