Places Edited by Allison Meier

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

Seoul amusement park boasts a Korean-speaking pachyderm.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

The Jesus tree of Malta bears a striking resemblance to Christ on the cross.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

Venice's island of the dead.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.