Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

This museum holds the most comprehensive collection of Armenian art in the world.

This quaint river crossing is the last car-suitable wooden bridge in the Swiss canton of Valais.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

The lesser-known of just two Japanese Gardens in Ireland stands as a memorial to an obscure but fascinating travel writer and journalist

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The formerly unmarked grave of the noted Black American painter, who was a friend to James Baldwin.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

A memorial honoring a mathematician likely murdered by Taiwan's authoritarian government.

This statue of a medical missionary is sometimes used to gauge flood levels during typhoons.

Where Taiwan found its oil...

With a design inspired by the local cuesta rock formations, this museum serves as a gateway to Yilan’s history and geography.

This natural spring was once an important source of freshwater for the salty (former) island of Naha

A collection of trees from each of the 47 Japanese prefectures.

A bizarre trio of potato-like stone people represents the dynamism of city life