Places Edited by Ella Morton

These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.

Pick up this rock and become an instant legend.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

Mind the rock monster at this cave.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

A monument with a strange legend involving a horse's tongue.

A tribute to a child prodigy who died way too young.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

Peek inside Howard Hughes' garage at this Hollywood-themed art installation.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

Take a leisurely ride on a 1906 cable car or a 1907 steam locomotive.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

A rare labyrinth-style path carved into a historic hill.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.