Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

All that remains of the medieval palace of the famous "Black Prince."

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.

These particularly resplendent rodents are the state animal of Maharashtra.

The monument marks where Simón Bolívar and his Spanish adversary Pablo Morillo met to have a drink together.

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

A neglected bell tower in modern Colombo is a symbol of the city's colonial past.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The collapse of the brand-new dam caused one of the worst floods in British history.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.