Places Edited by erjeffery

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

The whole world in one water tank.

A big museum full of little worlds.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."