Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

This Bronze Age tomb makes the most unusual front garden fixture.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

The worst flood disaster in Welsh history might have been a lot worse if it had not happened on movie night.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

This sculpture garden is a serene oasis wedged in the middle of a busy highway.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Flying high, this unusual hornet statue celebrates the local soccer team formerly owned by Elton John.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A palatial former bank building now houses what may be the poshest art venue (and former Tesco) in Belfast.

A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.