Places Edited by erjeffery

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A mysterious spot where the laws of gravity seem not to apply.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

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

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

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

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

It is believed that the historic tower is sinking at a rate of an inch a year, though no one is completely sure why.