Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

This ancient city was home to one of the greatest schools of Greek philosophy.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

The fictional birthplace of the Chief Engineer aboard the Starship Enterprise.

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.

A fantastic example of Victorian railway engineering with two unusual decorative features.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

Daikon radishes are offered to the Japanese Buddhist counterpart of the Hindu god Ganesha at this historic hilltop temple.

This stucco building in North Africa was the first American-owned property on foreign soil.

A British Commonwealth cemetery in the heart of Milan, with 421 allied soldiers died during World War II.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

In 1898, a New England storm that claimed more than 400 lives created this brand new stretch of shoreline.

On the grounds of this study, Lew Wallace composed "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" and many other works.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A small troop of Japanese macaques live peacefully in the heart of this Tasmanian city.

Built in 1815, the stabilized ruins of the grist mill and sawmill are now gated, but interpretive displays on the features and functions of the mill preserve its history.

The largest terracotta fountain in the world, built to commemorate Britain’s Victorian achievements.

A well drilled into the side of a cliff supplies most of the water consumed on the island of El Hierro.