Places Edited by erjeffery

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

A crescent of 12 simple statues poised on a small windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.