Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

This work of art pays tribute to an iron-hulled paddled steamer that traveled the world.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

A tribute to smugglers and the Butter Wars.

Known as one of the most famous parks in Honduras.

This 16th-century cemetery became a recreational park during the Soviet occupation—today it's a little bit of both.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

When a missile testing site was proposed near this site in the Outer Hebrides, this statue was commissioned in response.

Turtles swim in a pond surrounding a classical temple in this lush park in Vicenza.

In Edwin Hubble's hometown, a scale model of the groundbreaking telescope that was named in his honor.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

This bronze statue commemorates the life of the first Black American to publish a novel in the United States.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

An artist crafted this lonely left hand as an imagined relic from Singapore's history.

Believed to be the former location of one of the earliest Viking assemblies in Europe.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.