Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

This Sri Lankan cemetery is the final resting place of sci-fi legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

For over 40 years, this quaint little house has teetered on a rock in the middle of a river.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.