Places Edited by Molly McBride Jacobson

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

South Africa's postal service began with a letter left in a boot beneath this tree.

A big museum full of little worlds.

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.