Places Edited by jddarcy

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A medieval abbey featured on 'Game of Thrones' that dates back to the 12th century.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.