Places Edited by Henrik Johansson

This historic rec center in the heart of Israel is a bastion of peace and togetherness.

Traditional Bedouin crafting has become an official tourist site and successful industry for its female craftspeople.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

A spectacular Bulgarian cave resembling a devil's head with a waterfall rushing down its throat.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

This attraction is devoted to the wonders of steam power and features a replica of one of its most public disasters.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

The second largest surviving chained library is housed in this 12th century church.

This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.

A life-sized memorial to Harry L. Collins, the official corporate magician of Frito-Lay.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.