Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.