Places Edited by erinculley

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

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

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

An urban laboratory.