Places katherineplatt Wants to Go

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

100-windowed castle turned art gallery, built by one dedicated mason.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

A student driver's nightmare.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.