Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

This Tuscan church contains a gallery of over 700 ex-votos depicting near-death experiences.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

A hidden church in a hidden courtyard tells the story of the Miracle of Amsterdam.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This Canadian hunting lodge is a long way from home.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.