Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The remains of a former colonial fort on a stretch of beach that is occasionally visited by crocodiles.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

This building, previously used as a courthouse, has an unusual geological feature in its basement.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

At this ancient settlement at the foot of Mount Babadağ, honeycomb tombs are carved into a round cliff.

A statue commemorating the island's tradition of dancing dwarves in Napoleon hats.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

This slightly spooky yet nostalgic theme park claims to be the first of its kind in Australia.

Nine caves filled with recently-discovered archaeological finds under the houses and the streets of the most ancient district of an old town.

A monument to the bloody fight against fascism in Slovakia during World War II.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

This church houses the tomb—but not the remains—of St. Nicholas, the likely progenitor to Santa Claus.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

Plagued with warts? Leave a frog at this small shrine in the city of Tosa, and you may be cured.

A stunning architectural yet functional feat, towering over Oslo.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

An open-air museum showing how people on El Hierro lived from the time of the first settlers until the late 20th century.

One of Indonesia's tallest, this waterfall takes a 390-foot plunge into the Lake Toba caldera.

Cascading waterfalls mark the gateway to the ancient burial place of Clan Macnab.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.