Places Edited by Martin

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.

This is one really big nut.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

A biblically accurate ark located beneath a Hong Kong bridge is fun for the whole Christian family.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.

A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.