Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

This Danish castle is supposedly haunted by a woman too independent to not be a witch.

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.