Places ktart Wants to Go

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

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