Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

This mosaic made out of books represents one of Colonial Mexico's most important literary figures.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

Less so a museum and more a library for hardcore Japanophiles.

A memorial for public executions that dates back to the 14th century.

Where the Border Reivers of the Johnstone clan used to hide their stolen cattle.

This collection of 20th-century toys is filled with a lifelong personal toy collection brought from the U.S. to Amsterdam.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

An open-air sculpture museum in a park in Alcorcón.

A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.

The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.