Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.

A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.