Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

A gorgeous and extensive collaboration between biologists and artists, displaying skeletons and other animal remnants in lifelike poses.

Absolutely no saxophones in the library.

A solid steel plane designed to catch fire over and over again.

This humble bench is considered the most beautiful in the world.

A hidden gallery exhibits intricate, decades-old Buddhist reliefs.

Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

The long-lost final resting place of an accused witch.

A 30-mile-long glacially-carved canyon leads to a massive pair of glaciers.

This risqué sculpture, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, caused outrage 35 years after it was erected.

The oldest operating picture gardens in the world.

This ”skyspace,” which bears a resemblance to a spacecraft, is designed to disappear in the presence of light.

Paisley's oldest open green space contains a rather ostentatious fountain at its center.

What started as makeshift fishermen's housing has grown into a massive, floating community.

Legend has it that centuries ago, a ghost once frequented this candy shop to feed her still-living baby.

This sculpture of a rhinoceros suspended above a city square is meant to evoke the weight of the human condition.

On a secluded beach is one of the few shipwrecks left on the shores of Mauritania.

Luxembourg's first beer museum honors the Grand Duchy's contributions to the art and science of beer-production.

A German artist built a home and garden filled with whimsical art pieces, like a massive, operational volcano.

Known as the Casa de las Siete Chimeneas, this haunted 16th-century manor has a dark, mysterious past.

An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.