Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Hundreds of antiquated typewriters and office machinery show the technological evolution of business.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.