Places Edited by Kavya Ram Mohan

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

This impressive system of tanks was used to store drinking water as long as 2,000 years ago.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

The fight to make Bengali an official language started in this stunning university hall.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

The Sun, Moon, and stars peacefully coexist with animals, humans, and their tools at this surprising sculpture park.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.