Places Edited by Mark Casey

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.