Places katehawes Wants to Go

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Art and a pun, all in one.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.