Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A chapel built by Italian POWs during World War II tells a forgotten tale of the war on the home front.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

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For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

The Rio Lerma (Chignahuapan) in El Salto, Mexico, is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. It’s covered in white foam, and falling in can kill.