Places Edited by Molly McBride Jacobson

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.