Places Edited by Lex Berko

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

An Irish peat mine has become a stunning sculpture park.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

At this Arctic outpost, get to know members of the indigenous Sámi community and meet their herds.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The first singer to cut a country music record is buried in a small graveyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

Seven beautiful 1,000-year-old rock-cut Buddhist statues.

One of the largest and most scenic of Bangladesh's tea gardens.

One of the cave cities of Crimea, built by the Goths in the sixth century.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

A pyramidal marker where the borders of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet on top of Mount Roraima.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.

In the U.K., a historic workhouse shines a light on the early, harsh treatment of the poor.

An exact replica of Bill Clinton's childhood home stands within a resort in Japan.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.