Places Edited by Jaszmina Szendrey

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

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

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

Some wattle-and-daub, a Moorish mural, a glacial erratic, and a Giant named Gilbert.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.