Places Edited by linkogecko

Semi-mystical manmade towers of rocks decorate this rocky seaside.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A park in Mexico offers all the experiences of an illegal border crossing except for one: the border.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

Resonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric times.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

Climb through the life of a Mexican hero as you ascend a 130-foot statue.

Concrete balls on wires constructed to stop train surfing in Indonesia.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.