Places Edited by Jaszmina Szendrey

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

The world's most elegant power lines.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A towering spire in the fortress of Kalemegdan honors the victorious armies of Serbia during their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.