Places Edited by David Stephenson

The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.

Long before wi-fi, this public seat provided the wonder of being online while outdoors.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

This memorial was created by an Irish nurse who lived in New York City during 9/11.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.