Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The west's first Japanese museum and the origin of East Asian studies.

This two-legged horse statue celebrates a beloved cartoonist and his quirky characters.

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

26 Chinese banyan trees cling dramatically to a stone wall, overhanging the street below.

A tongue-in-cheek marker at the place where Robert Barr supposedly created Scotland’s favorite soft drink.

A hauntingly beautiful grave commemorates love evermore.

A museum celebrating mola textiles, the intricate art of the Guna people of Panama.

An Anatolian immigrant created his own little paradise in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, made possible by the tensions of the Cold War.

A neoclassical crypt hides under Liverpool’s modernist cathedral.

A tunnel commissioned by ‘the Intruder King’ to escape from the palace if there were problems.

The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!

A small shrine run entirely by vending machines.

A subterranean necropolis blending Egyptian, Hellenic, and Roman traditions and art styles.

Art and concrete merge into a single entity within a WWII bunker that possesses a deeply storied and turbulent history.

A church instrumental in the spreading of Christianity in England and the final resting place of hundreds of Saxons.

Grand Orthodox cathedral with walls filled with frescoes and icons.

A little piece of railroad history preserved on a narrow-gauge railway

A contemporary art space located within a charming hundred year old heritage building.

War-ravaged ruins of a Benedictine monastery founded in the early 12th century, later rebuilt into a fortress.

The final resting place of one of Italy’s most influential and imaginative writers.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

Built in 1797, this is Mississippi’s most haunted house.

Holds a ton of antique electronics, clocks, cameras, motorbikes, and bicycles.