Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

This unusual monument shows a naked Simón Bolívar stripped of clothing, medals, and swords.

One of Bhutan's oldest temples was purportedly built to stop a giant female ogre from preventing the spread of Buddhism across Tibet.

A scale model of the world's largest existing lensed telescope.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

The now-public home of a renowned art collector is full of unique pieces from viceregal and 19th-century Mexico.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.

This Bhutanese site is one of eight sacred locales established by a revered 14th-century Buddhist master.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Fenced off in a garden cemetery in Honduras lies the grave of the most notorious American filibuster.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.