Places Edited by Kavya Ram Mohan

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

The pyramid and dome deep inside the Dzūkija forest are believed to channel divine energy.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

An obelisk marks the exact center of the continent, as per the calculations of the legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A unique museum dedicated to the famed Soviet director and other cinema greats.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This abandoned palace and the stupas around it conceal beautiful Buddhist frescoes, statues, and silk paintings.