Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

The oldest playground in America.

Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

These old doors are covered in the signatures of Rehoboth Beach artists dating back to the 1930s.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.