Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

A wooden replica of France's famous tower.

Plastic pups and their colorful homes greet travelers on this otherwise ordinary Australian street.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.