Places Loethlin Wants to Go

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

On a small Slovenian island, diners can mix and match a classic cake into dozens of sweet and savory flavor combinations.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.