Places katehawes Wants to Go

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

An underwater city for the dead.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.