Places Edited by Ashawnta Jackson

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

These sacred totem houses connect the Fatakulu people with the spirits of their ancestors.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

The remains of a 37,000-year-old prehistoric society were discovered in this mammoth cave, one of the largest in Asia.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

This garden is very fertile.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.