Places kattowice Wants to Go

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Venice's island of the dead.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

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

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.