Places Edited by Madison Dapcevich

Located in the large-scale shopping mall is an otherwise unassuming aquarium featuring species native to Okinawa waters.

Baltasar Bachero became a hero after he saved the lives of two children nearly run over by an out-of-control mule-drawn carriage.

A remote Arctic mountain range is home to "granite cities" found almost nowhere else.

A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

In 1421, a drowning man prayed for his life and promised to build a chapel where he would wash ashore.

An early Christian basilica modeled after an Egyptian temple showcases some the best-preserved frescos from late antiquity.

The hearts of 54 Habsburg royals received special burials here separate from their bodies.

A unique tribute to the chocolatey past that helped shape one British city.

A fossilized pie discovered during renovations of a traditional English pub is now on display.

This interactive museum is dedicated to the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and founder of one of the nation’s earliest boomtowns.

A quiet alpine lake where hikers pass alpacas and an old brewery.

Roma who struck it rich in the 1980s built extravagant mansions in this small Romanian town.

The 100-foot-tall (30-meter) bronze statue was built to recognize the world's only documented all-female army.

Once the home of a noted Civil War spy, the two-story brick house now serves as a museum.

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

According to legend, a Sufi saint decreed that 11 men can lift this roughy 150-pound stone with only their index fingers upon invoking his name.

JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.

A once-shattered school now preserves a visible fault line, showcasing Taiwan's traumatic 1999 earthquake.

Constructed during the roaring 20s, this restored historic hotel recalls its past as home to the first in-hotel distillery.

These public toilets also provide entertainment for visitors to Amsterdam’s Red Light District.

One of the oldest universities in the world exhibits thousands of specimens from its 700-year-old collection.

A coastal French town said to have been visited by Jesus' disciples is a major pilgrimage center for Catholic Romanis.

World War II Soviet Russian soldiers were buried on the Danish island after the war had ended.

An unassuming museum offers a deep dive into everything about mushrooms, from cultivation innovations to fungi that "talk."