Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

A mysterious architectural gem in one of the most elegant areas of Buenos Aires.

An archaeological museum at the Aztec pyramid displays signs of the New Fire ritual performed every 52 years.

From a distance, Latin America's first Baha'i Temple looks like an enormous egg perched atop a hill.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

The taxidermy remains of the mighty beast made famous by a Crocodile Dundee film.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

The world's largest private telescope collection hides in a secret wing of a Dutch auto museum.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.