Places Edited by Henrik Johansson

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.