Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

A recent addition to the Suzhou skyline, heralding the ‘Gateway to the Orient’, is commonly ridiculed for looking like a big pair of trousers

Atop this iconic central Brighton monument sits an inaccurate but innovative time keeping device

The richest man in Mexico built the largest aquarium in Latin America 26 meters underground

A beloved postmaster’s lonely walk home ended in a wooded ambush

Everything good comes from Uranus

A rare stone ledge where the poor once received their share in the churchyard

Dark relics of one of the largest explosives factories of the Third Reich

Ruins of a vanished village, long shadowed by rumors of a hidden lineage

Visit a World War II era coastal battery in the center of one of Hawaii’s main tourist destinations

Two alleyways in Suzhou Old Town offer a slice of life in Shanghai's French Concession, and served as a private home-away-from-home for one of 1920s Shanghai’s most infamous gangsters

The hidden chapel that keeps getting forgotten over the centuries

This grand old Chinese medical facility has been restored and reopened to serve its original purpose.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

A pair of trousers or a dress was hoisted up the shore station’s flagstaff to announce the birth of a baby to the lighthouse keeper working offshore.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

Graffiti-clad ruins of an abandoned 1980s industrial site with a toxic past are nestled among residential houses.

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.