Places Edited by Jaszmina Szendrey

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The place where World War I began.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Hungarian self-built castle.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

A student driver's nightmare.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.