Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

Every Friday, Sufi dervishes whirl around the tomb in a trance-like state as part of a sacred ritual called dhikr.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.