Places Edited by Lex Berko

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

An oddly shaped tower built to mark the acquittal of Admiral Keppel in a controversial 1770s case.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.