Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

A quiet ode to Communist China's propaganda machine, including a newspaper edited by Mao Zedong's own hand.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

Some of the earliest leaders of the Moravian congregation are buried here.

The home studio one of Britain's first independent record producers is also the site of a murder-suicide.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

A place of remembrance for the Prime Minister that met a violent end.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.