Places Edited by Michelle Cassidy

James E. Grosjean's Noah's Ark "spectacular display" is a primitive version of animatronics built in 1901 -- showing the biblical story in a moving diorama of animals and choreographed lights.

The mausoleum of a national hero of Albania is placed in a former church and mosque

Once tied to Templar legend and later to Prussian counts, this fairy-tale palace has witnessed centuries of Polish history

These sculpted heads on the outside of a former Knights Templar building date back to the 17th century

An egg dancing on water as a sign of renewal

Home to an astounding collection of carved skulls and other artifacts from Puebla's history

A strange building in the woods connected to a tragic love story

Memorial for the woman who invented the coffee filter

a short hiking tour, especially for couples, in a village with a „matching“ name

Last resting place for the Formula 1 Racing Driver who was the idol of legendary racing driver Michael Schumacher

excavated small Roman castle in the woods close to Pohlheim

A cave whose archaeological contents proved the existence of a Copper Age culture is also where God put the Devil to shame

This sculpture shows an iconic image typical of Ibiza that, however, did not take place here

Cemetery with no dead, but a collection of exceptionally irreverent funerary monuments, site of the World Peace Cross and the world's most monumental Danse Macabre

Memorial for the last casualty of the Cold War, causing the last major crisis of the Cold War

The hidden chapel that keeps getting forgotten over the centuries

An ancient burial mound located on the western outskirts of Colchester

A Tudor blockhouse with a long history of military use and rare surviving earthworks

Fragments of a Roman city gate embedded in a building on Lincoln's Steep Hill

From uncovered medieval saint paintings that survived the Reformation to a memorial to a 113-year-old woman, this church contains fascinating secrets

A well-preserved Neolithic burial mound in the Cotswold hills

One of the largest known Roman theatres in Britain

One of the oldest and largest timber-framed barns in Europe

The Gloucester shop said to have inspired Beatrix Potter's Tailor