Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

A simple tribute to the migrant workers who landed here before walking hundreds of miles to Victoria's gold mines.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.