Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

Cross mysteriously appeared for 36 years.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

Underwater roads undetectable from the surface used for escape routes from foreign invaders.