Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.