Places Edited by Michael Inscoe

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

The building's fluid, wavelike walls are a true feat of architectural ingenuity.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This long-distance walking route follows the Prime Meridian line as it passes through England.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

The lengthy skeleton of one of the tallest Spaniards of all time is on display in Madrid.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

The smallest Mexican land grant in California was given, and then taken from, a 19th-century teacher and nurse.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.