Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

A giant Jesus statue watches over the city of Saltillo from the top of a mountain.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Destructive children, start your engines.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.