Places Edited by mayalao

Former sea turtle kraals, slaughterhouse, and cannery turned museum.

All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.

A woman facing death for bearing a child out of wedlock lifted this massive stone as her legacy.

According to legend, the Devil left a footprint behind after an epic showdown with a traveling priest.

Stand on the rim of a dormant volcano and gaze across a vast ash plain frozen in time.

Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.

Once the largest source of mercury in the Americas, these ruins earned the name “Mine of Death.”

A pocket of pine forests, healing lakes, and legendary rocks rising from Kazakhstan’s endless steppe.

Travel back in time aboard a restored 1950s-era railcar.

Where a hospital garden hides a haunting reminder of life’s cycle.

The world’s first museum dedicated solely to electric vehicles.

Three wooden middle fingers raised in protest.

Campus sculpture has earned a reputation for responding to the hopes and dreams of those passing by.

The “jail” hidden away in Old Town Temecula that was never actually a jail.

The genteel home of a charming thief who fooled a town, and almost cheated death.

A small museum dedicated to mustard making inside a still-working mill.

The official flag of the short-lived Republic of Formosa.

Cape Cod’s historic beacon made famous on a potato chip bag.

Freemasonry’s universal creed etched in limestone.

The ship responsible for Antarctica’s largest oil spill still lies just below the surface.

Scrap metal transformed into surreal roadside art.

The trout that grew a winter coat is mounted in its Colorado hometown.

One of the best views of the city is tucked away at the top of a water tower.

A stone record of five floods inside Liège’s cathedral.