Places kat Wants to Go

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

This former hospital was once one of the oldest mental health facilities in Europe.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

This building featuring Brutalist architecture has a rich media production history.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

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

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

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

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.