Places Edited by Lex Berko

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.

The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Because there's no place like home.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

A local prank turned town icon.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."