Places Edited by Lex Berko

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

The world's longest covered bridge is a quaint and incredible wooden tunnel.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.