Places Edited by Annetta Black

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.

Unique geological formations in China, featuring some suggestive shapes.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.