Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

The location of this historic castle was inspired by a donkey.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

Dating back to the second century, vestiges of prehispanic mural paintings are found in this underground palace.

The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.

This former royal palace with gorgeous gardens became the first museum in Morocco.

The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

This species of wild goat stars in witchy legends and frolics among the park's eerie rock formations.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This abandoned convent keeps the tomb of a legendary beheaded princess.

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.