Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.

This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

On holy holidays, Israel's second president used this room atop Mount Zion as a refuge to read the Torah.

The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

It's a mystery as to why this inland village chose the dolphin as its symbol.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

The last timber and iron Chinese temple in Australia.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

This public library and its impressive collection of academic books have not changed since the 17th century.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

Plastic pups and their colorful homes greet travelers on this otherwise ordinary Australian street.

The art critic claiming that "only an ape could have done this" was in fact right.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.