Places Edited by Allison Meier

An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

The exorbitant price of paradise.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The lesser-known cousin of the Great Pacific trash island.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

This Canary island is a quintessential example of nature’s beauty, and its unbridled fury.

A magical world of elves and fairies tucked amongst the trees in Colombia.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.