Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This temple located on a vertical drop of a rocky mountain houses relics from the Song Dynasty.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

The art critic claiming that "only an ape could have done this" was in fact right.

This abandoned urban warfare facility is a dream come true for airsoft and paintball enthusiasts.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

Exploring the wilder, more passionate sibling of Erg Chebbi feels like discovering a secret sun-kissed planet from another galaxy.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.