Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

This strange mural located in the Ueno station is filled with traditional Japanese symbolism.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

This air raid shelter from the Spanish Civil War is now a museum dedicated to the history of the city's bombardment.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

A seaside castle complex that stood through centuries of conquests.

This 130-year-old, steam locomotive represents the Spanish industrial and agricultural boom of the late 19th and early 20th century.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

This incredible viaduct was part of the Victorian railway boom and helped the Midland Railway navigate tough terrain.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

The remains of the vast manor that once belonged to Lord Kira, villain in the 47 Ronin story, is now a shrine dedicated to the incident.

The house of physicists Paul Ehrenfest was also a temporary dwelling and study for his good friend Albert Einstein.

The first free library in Georgia features an original Tiffany stained glass window of Mary Willis.

This monument honors the band's impromptu performance at Cadillac highschool's homecoming decades ago.

This small enclave plays host to a house, church, and wishing well all composed entirely of recycled glass bottles.

This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.