Places Edited by mayalao

A rare statue representing a monk who peeled off his own face to show divinity

University pranksters set up this jumble of telephone poles and steel wires overnight

The largest rainforest in southern Africa was only discovered by conservationists thanks to Google Earth

This English country house was once a P.O.W. "resort" and base for spymasters during the Second World War

This giant, unfinished suburban cathedral was meant to be the Canadian seat of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church

A $600,000 pile of stainless steel balls makes for some rather divisive public art.

This historic train depot transports visitors to an early 20th-century world before desegregation

A Japanese fertility god in the shape of a large phallus.

This is no regular fort! It’s a star.

These quaint stepping stones traverse the river that connects three of England’s most beautiful lakes.

This museum shaped like an inflating balloon celebrates the sport’s buoyant achievements.

This conceptual artwork might be the most disappointing attraction in Brussels.

A marvel of engineering, this road ascends a Norwegian hill through six spirals inside of it.

A preserved ancient Marshall Britannia steam locomotive on display at a train station.

Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp’s brother, is among those buried here.

A quiet pine forest near Nichel hides a powerful memorial to victims of a nearly forgotten war crime.

When Ghibli came to a Taiwanese village.

Open 24 hours, this self-serve sandwich spot specializes in egg salad sandwiches in a land that takes them very seriously.

A remote and picturesque volcano nestled inside another volcano.

Historical marker at the spot where Bonnie and Clyde were killed.

Likely the world’s only place where you’re meant to skate on top of cars.

A tiny airplane-shaped monument marks the story of Taiwan’s first civilian pilot and his fatal crash in 1934.

A 1926 cow tunnel that passes underneath the nation’s longest road.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.