Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

The wartime boat shelter now doubles as an underground concert hall where musicians play on rafts along the waterway.

A thriving surf community exists in relative remoteness along the former boundary between North and South Korea.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

The only Chinese temple in Mumbai.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

Forgotten for decades, the first medical school built in Communist China is full of surprises today.

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.