Places Edited by Rachel James

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

A museum showcasing the history of sugarcane with a rich history.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.