Places Edited by Alan Newman

Pettah's beautiful floating market was once a stinky canal in a sketchy industrial area.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

These abandoned coal mine towers near Sherwood Forest might soon boast the U.K.’s longest zip-line.