Places Edited by Martin

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.