Places Edited by Ella Morton

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Former host to the World Elephant Polo Championships.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.