Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

This 50-foot-deep sinkhole created in the 14th century is home to rare plants and fungi.

Modern megaliths form this work of cosmic, Celtic landscape art.

A curious memento mori hangs in the magnificent Cathedral of Segovia.

An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

Model aircraft soar over 360-degree views of the countryside at the start of England's oldest road.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

Ecuador's first Catholic church was built by Spanish conquistadors in 1534.

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

This marvelous array is one of the largest collections of mechanical instruments in Europe.

The largest prehistoric cemetery on the Balearic Islands dates back over 2,500 years.

Part of an abandoned19th-century fortress hides in plain sight inside a modern office building.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.