Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This historic museum is home to a rare Confederate Chester Gun.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.