Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.

A Sri Lankan tea factory's ironic take on the Los Angeles landmark.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

A tomb in the shape of a traditional Mexican hat and shawl for the father of modern rancheras.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.