Places Edited by Henrik Johansson

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.

The ruins of this Dutch castle sit atop a labyrinth of once-secret tunnels and passageways, dating back over 900 years.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

No cyclone yet has been able to topple this rugged Indian lighthouse.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

A massive cross stands as the sole resident of this water-locked Crimean crag.

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

This Sri Lankan cemetery is the final resting place of sci-fi legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke.