Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

The blowhole bursts spectacularly right next to the buildings in a medieval seaside town.

This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.

This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.

This unique medieval artwork featuring the story of the Antichrist remained lost for decades.

A 2,000-year-old engineering wonder hides beneath an Italian town.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.