Places Edited by Michael Inscoe

The great American road trip, but smaller.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.