Places Edited by Ella Morton

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The world's largest aggregation of great white sharks is at a mysterious spot in the middle of the ocean.