Places Edited by Ella Morton

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

During this yearly Welsh swimming race, competitors tread through the fetid waters of a bog trench.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

One man single-handedly dug a road right through a mountain after his wife died due to its interference.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.