Places Edited by Michael Barera

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.