Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

Right angles in the forests of Panama.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.

Church holding the preserved body of a levitating saint.

A no-frills, DIY nature preserve manned by a U.S. expat who has dedicated his life to turtle conservation.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.