Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

The Renaissance-era courthouse is a relic from the fortified town's centuries of Venetian rule.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A 141-foot wave of crashing lumber guards the entrance to the Grand Place in Mons.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

An abandoned quarrying village turned commune is now a hub for learning the Welsh language.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.