Places kerryymm Wants to Go

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

This museum in the famously blue neighborhood of Sidi Bou Saïd showcases a traditional Tunisian lifestyle.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare enter it.

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

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.