Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

A small island that was once a key Axis fortification during World War II.

Just one of the Italian corridors vying for the title of the country's narrowest.

Two innocuous monuments found in separate locations attempt to unite a city.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

This unique abacus hanging in the Technical University of Munich actually tells the time.

Locals often dress this effigy of Traverse City's founder in festive outfits.

The former house of an anthropologist couple displays Lacandón Maya artifacts in a homey atmosphere.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

Outside a market, beautiful murals pay tribute to fruit sellers and farmers, as well as a few legendary artists.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

An archaeological museum squeezed into a narrow 15th-century gate tower accessed only by a spiral staircase.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

This Estonian watchtower looks like a big tree with two giant bird nests on it, complete with a "golden egg."

Legend has it that not even Stalin could pull down the 2015 European Tree of the Year.

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.

Historic slum of Tartu.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.