Places Edited by Martin

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

The taxidermy remains of the mighty beast made famous by a Crocodile Dundee film.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

An aeronautical-themed resort forged around rusty relics from the golden age of air travel.

This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

Eritrea's futuristic gas station is a nod to Italy's fascist history.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.