Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

An operating 19th-century lighthouse just on the southern tip of Sweden.

A hauntingly preserved early 20th-century industrial flour mill featuring a grand central tower, ornate spiral staircases, and original milling machinery left untouched.

Deep within the mountains, a towering natural wall of tightly packed basalt columns mimics a colossal ancient fortress built by no human hands.

One of the world’s few undersea pedestrian tunnels connects Honshu and Kyushu islands.

The most emblematic piece by a Peruvian master of pop art ended up placed in a modest square in Alcorcón.

This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A bronze memorial to Tallinn’s most famous, and most elusive, stray dog, erected while he was still alive.

One of the first Second Empire-style buildings constructed in North America.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

Carved through granite boulder fields and primeval forests, this roaring river valley once served as the secret naval training ground for the legendary Tay Son insurgency.

The Pulitzer Prize winning writer and actor from “The Exorcist,” Jason Miller, is immortalized with a statue that contains his ashes.

Home of the world-famous coyote-teeth dentures.

The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

A lone railway-crossing post, left behind as a modest monument to Tokyo’s mercantile past

Over 80 miniature sculptures around Uzhhorod old town that depict Transcarpathian history and culture.

A 1600-year-old church carved into the rock, with painted frescoes from 900.

Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.

A turn-of-the-century agricultural architecture movement turned out to be a fad that caught on the strongest near Rochester, Indiana.

The Catedral Basílica de Salvador is special for its stunning Baroque interior and the historic sepulchre of Mem de Sá, connecting the church to Salvador’s colonial past.

Perched atop an isolated 779-meter mountain peak, this enigmatic Cham ruin remains shrouded in mystery regarding its age and purpose.