Places Hannah Theobald Wants to Go

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

The symbolic center of Ireland, this summit also offers panoramic views of the countryside.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

This hermitage celebrates the legend of Emperor Constantine's healing from leprosy.