Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

One of the world's largest pianos is displayed in the workshop of the man who built it as a teenager.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A century-old bathhouse that provides the luxury of warm water to rural Guatemalans.

Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.

This restored colonial house was once home to the botanist responsible for bringing avocados to the U.S.

Natural saunas fed by volcanic heat.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

This orchid sanctuary protects countless varieties of the flower, from the huge to the microscopic.