Places Edited by Lex Berko

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

For over 40 years, this quaint little house has teetered on a rock in the middle of a river.

Calcium-rich water has turned the water and rocks of these Philippines falls slightly green.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

Did Gustav Eiffel design this enigmatic metal building?

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.