Places Edited by Johan SWE

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

An artificial hill and apparent calendric structure built in the Early Middle Ages immortalizes a legendary Polish princess.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

A Chinese meditation center in the middle of rural Sweden, partly funded by a member of ABBA.

This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

Dedicated to a song so popular the request to "Play Shoreline" became part of Swedish culture.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.