Places Edited by AaronNetsky

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.