Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

The blowhole bursts spectacularly right next to the buildings in a medieval seaside town.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A forsaken beachfront condo abandoned after the Boxing Day Tsunami.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

The spectacular subterranean collection includes dazzling minerals, including a piece of "kryptonite."

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

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

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

Are they the remains of a fallen hotel, or the final stronghold for escaped Nazis?

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.