Places Edited by Jaszmina Szendrey

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

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

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.