Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

Geodesic dome luxury retreat in the Scottish Highlands.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

17th century mosque for Shah Abbas' harem.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.