Places Edited by MrCarl

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

These charming mailboxes became social media stars after a typhoon failed to topple them.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

It is said a heartbroken man visited the gap every day to stare blankly out at the sea.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.