Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

Executed at age 19, this Vietnamese schoolgirl is now a national hero and symbol of revolutionary spirit.

The remains of this 2nd-century Roman temple are incorporated into a modern building.

An enormous sinkhole that local lore attributes to the anger of the Virgin Mary.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

The oldest hydroelectric plant in Czechia is now a museum.

This truck is celebrated as part of the "miracle" that connected this town to the rest of Mexico.

This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

The famous Alice Liddell designed this memorial after losing her sons in World War I.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

Hidden under the thick tropical vegetation of a cemetery is the tomb of Columbo Sahib.

This spa park features an open-air museum of abstract marble sculptures.

This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.

This giant Canadian coin is a monument to the artist who created its iconic emblem.

Italy's only urban waterfall has enchanted artists and travelers for centuries.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

This castle once belonged to one of the most prominent families of medieval Carrickfergus.

This historic floating crane became an unlikely symbol of the port of Trieste.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.