Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.