Places Edited by Hana Glasser

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

A collection cataloguing one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history.

The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The remains of a medieval wall discovered in the basement of a jewelry store.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.

This Danish castle is supposedly haunted by a woman too independent to not be a witch.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.