Places Edited by Michael Inscoe

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

A celebration of solstice followed by a fiery purging of evils.