Places Edited by iantheindescribable

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Digger attempting to hide itself under 300 tons of rubble.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.