Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

Grand Cayman is home to a colorful sculpture garden filled with giant concrete animals.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

Puerto Rico's once thriving oil company is now an abandoned wonderland of rusty steel.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

One of the longest natural sand beaches in the world.

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

A long-buried ancient ruin unearthed right in the middle of the city.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.