Places Edited by Lex Berko

A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the middle of the Canadian prairie.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

This abandoned fighter jet launch center is now a haunting street racing course.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

The King is honored by an elaborate grotto on a continent he never visited.

This giant volcanic crater holds its very own field of salt.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

One man's labor of love, Amman's oldest home has become a time capsule with its doors permanently open to artists and guests.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.