Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

Part of the medieval watchtower is displayed in an otherwise ordinary parking garage.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

Something's watching you.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.