Places Edited by Allison Meier

Norway's national monument to fallen seamen.

The world's oldest model village.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

Recently revamped museum of Fijian history located within a gorgeous colonial-era garden.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Gliwice Radio Tower, likely the tallest wooden structure in the world.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.