Places Edited by Jaszmina Szendrey

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.