Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

After a night ravaged by bedbugs, it's said King John ordered the creation of this weathervane.

The hilltop ruins of a border fortification in the Italian Alps that was much fought over.

A reproduction of a mysteriously preserved body found in the 18th-century and put on display for years before burial.

Stockholm's famed ghost train is now on display at an art park in northern Sweden.

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.

A unique, eye-catching statue that carries an important message of hope.

A semi-sterile mutant birch that became Sweden's national tree.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

A historic fortification critical to Anglo-Scottish conflicts now serves as a bed and breakfast.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

These sculptures honor the knights who once called Carrickfergus Castle their stronghold.

The history of those incarcerated in Singapore during World War II is etched into the bricks of a popular staircase.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This abandoned villa of makeshift buildings was once the home of dancer Elis Sinistö.

This mesmerizing medieval monastery-cave complex sits thousands of feet above ground overlooking a valley.

The center of Stockholm can be found along this quiet street.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

A site where ten to twenty thousand Edo-era prisoners were put to death.

A unique Shinto shrine filled with bunnies and wordplay.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

Come for the fish sundae, stay for the collection of Studio Ghibli cat buses.