Places Edited by Martin

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.