Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.