Places Renate Wants to Go

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

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.