Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A student driver's nightmare.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.