Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

This old Victorian bathhouse is fed by an ancient spring.

One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.

Not far from Madrid, a set of perfectly preserved trenches date back to the Spanish Civil War.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The coffin-shaped church was once home to monks who slept in coffins.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

This red London phone booth once stood in front of Buckingham Palace and was used by the queen.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.