Places Edited by Alan Newman

Though it looks like a golf ball teed up for a hit, this hilltop station is actually used to monitor air traffic.

The last water-powered beam pumping engine in Britain.

Planes, helicopters, and a shipwreck are underwater in this former limestone quarry.

A massive tribute to Estonian history and culture.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

English parliaments were once convened by this ancient oak tree in the heart of Sherwood Forest.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

A replica memorializes the site where women were punished after the last witchcraft trial in Ireland.

An abandoned shipping control tower looks like a satellite perched at the end of a pier.

A Roman temple perched over an Italian town, forgotten several times over.

Inside this chapel, Victorian jailers took the separate system to new levels.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

This tiny train shuttles passengers to one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular sights.

These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

A beautiful medieval bridge allegedly constructed by the Devil.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.

A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

The only museum in the world dedicated to preserving the life and work of American comedian and entertainer, Phil Silvers.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."