Places Edited by Kavya Ram Mohan

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground