Places Edited by ElliotWilson

A general store and steam engine are standouts at this multi-building historic park.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

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

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.