Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

A big museum full of little worlds.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.