Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The 17th-century hacienda where Simón Bolívar spent his last days before dying from tuberculosis.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

First flying reptile discovered in British Columbia was for years forgotten in a cabinet.

A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

The haunting beauty of this little-visited wreck makes it a true hidden treasure.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

Thanks to a bit of wordplay, seven auspicious stone cats guard this ancient canalside street.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

Sweden's first electric elevator remains hidden within a fortress-like building.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

Two Chinese dragons guard the caves of this medieval temple in Iran.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.