Places katehawes Wants to Go

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.