Places katarina Wants to Go

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

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