Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The Chilean mountain is freckled with (relatively) small European telescopes.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.

This century-old barn is home to a homey, eclectic film festival.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

The narrow passages will challenge even the bravest driver.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.