Places Edited by AaronNetsky

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."