Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

The unique design was created by the traditional way communal rice paddies were divided among the indigenous people.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

This unique museum doesn't shy away from highlighting Qatar's role in the history of slavery.