Places Edited by Allison Meier

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.