Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.