Places Edited by Luke Fater

A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.

This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.

An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

An unassuming music museum recounts the rags to riches story of a dramatic Portuguese genre.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

A manifestation of modernist architectural ideas, this massive, multi-purpose building was one of the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

At this snack-shack in the bucolic British countryside, you can still get a slice of socialism with your spot of tea.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

A tiny village is home to the world's only diner completely devoted to the many varieties of traditional Swedish dumplings.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.