Places Edited by MrCarl

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

This 17th-century mausoleum is topped with an acoustic marvel.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

One of Australia's famed "Big Things," this giant fruit was once stolen as part of a publicity stunt.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.