Places katehawes Wants to Go

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.