Places nellynelly Wants to Go

The warmth and creative kitsch of a quilt engulf every patron who visits.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

The remnants of a 1970 plane crash remain high in the Rocky Mountains.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This remote Moravian mission brought Christianity—as well as devastation—to the Inuit people.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.