Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

This old Estonian mine has been kept like a sprawling time capsule of the local shale industry.

One man's journey to return a stone to its point of origin after 200,000 years.

A bronze statue commemorating the legend of a hellhound haunting the village of De Lutte.

Visit Europe's largest subterranean waterfall, carved by water from the glaciers of the towering peaks surrounding the valley.

A reconstructed section of a Roman bathhouse sits next to an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.

Thought to be the oldest Norman crypt in the world.

Preserved 19th-century lime kilns sit in southern Sweden.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

An adorable intake tower with a “witch hat” stands in the Edo River.

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.