Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.