Places Edited by Lex Berko

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This colonial mansion has been home to a staggering number of American historic figures.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.