Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

The artwork celebrates Trugo, a odd yet beloved local sport played only around Melbourne.

A rare set of strings by famed instrument maker Antonio Stradivarius is on display in the Royal Palace.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.