Places Edited by otterwhere

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

This local mascot has been a presence in the area since the 1960s.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

A horse-drawn 1858 steam pumper fire engine encased in glass on the front lawn of a Michigan insurance company.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.