Places Edited by breaingram

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.