Places Edited by breaingram

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.