Places Edited by Martin

Visit the home of Sweden's beloved fictional character, Pippi Longstocking.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

A tribute to Richard Feynman is carved into the land he planned to see but never got to visit.

This magical place built as an astronomical center starred as a James Bond villain's lair.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Mysterious chains and iron stakes adorn this strange grave, with no explanation.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Some of the world's largest letters are carved into the limestone bedrock of the Nullarbor Plain.