Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

This village was once a thriving Soviet uranium mining center, but is now semi-abandoned and desolate.

Instead of numerals, the unusual clock face spells out a memorial to a lost loved one.

Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

The world's largest bust sculpture celebrates the Hindu deity, Shiva.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

A historic cave in Scotland once served as a hiding place for a famous Covenanter.

An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

These ancient symbols freckling a Scottish cliff remained hidden for centuries.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A stone memorial marks the spot where the fighting of World War I finally ceased—three days after the armistice was signed in Europe.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

Climbing to the top of the cathedral's bell tower offers sweeping views of these medieval ruins.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Local lore says a serpent-like beast lurks in the deep basin below the falls.

This antique farmhouse is one of Læsø's rare seaweed houses.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.