Places kheimlicher Wants to Go

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.