Places Edited by MikeInSanFrancisco

The climactic location of the 1977 film 'The Yellow Handkerchief' commemorates its concept of happiness.

This 19th-century shopping arcade has charming, unusual stores like a luthier workshop and even the local Esperanto Association.

This mountainside open-air museum was built from the ashes left behind by a devastating fire.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

The history of drinking is told through 1,800 cups, chalices, and glasses at this exhibit.

This fountain was once heralded as the largest in the world.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

A small town celebrates its cash crop with a giant highway sculpture.

The atmospheric ruins of a historic church can be found on a hill above the city of Oviedo.

The much-loved protagonist of famed Argentinian comics can be found sitting on a park bench.

This frescoed ancient burial mound is a colorful window into China’s influence in early Japan.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.