Places Edited by Mike Bison

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

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

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A micronation of epic proportions.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

A science teacher's dream.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.