Places Edited by Allison Meier

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

The opulent car collection of an eccentric Sheikh housed in his own private pyramid.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.