Places dearestcatherine Wants to Go

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

This quaint New Jersey graveyard is an eternal resting place for thousands of beloved pets.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.