Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

This once private residence is now a popular wedding venue and training center for trade union officers.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

A rare example of a rural school in Washington, D.C.

Home to a monument dedicated to the American Rock duo along with a collection of music memorabilia.

A church made of steel.

From this modest childhood home, Ned Kelly went on to become Australia’s most infamous bushranger.

One of the oldest continually operated libraries in Kansas.

Curated by a small staff of veterans, the Carlow Military Museum valiantly provides a personal perspective on over 800 years of Irish history.

Once the smallest park in the national system.

The remains of a convent turned military barrack in the heart of Madrid.

The longest-covered bridge in the state of Maryland.

It's believed the famed author's parents once used this spring to gather water.

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

This effigy was crafted to annoy a neighbor after a civil dispute over a foul smell.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

Housed inside a former munitions plant that was once one of the largest in the country.

The graphite created here was used in the manufacturing of pencils.

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.