Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.