Places Edited by PrestonW

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

An intimate look into the apartments of Jounieh via cable car.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."