Places Edited by Alan Newman

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

A preserved 18th century steel factory.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

An underground city of salt.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

The world's first electric battery-powered submarine.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Salaguti's live-in museum: a fortress against criticism and consumer art.