Places Edited by Sarah Brumble

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

A peculiar idol to the Hindu King of Ghosts demands fine leather footwear in exchange for warding off evil.

Lebanon's highest point offers expansive views, martian terrains, and eerie ski lifts.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.