Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The largest hewn stone in history.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.