Places Edited by raymondwinn1941

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

This jewel of an engine is one of Northern England's finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution, even catching the eye of Henry Ford.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Cars mysteriously roll uphill on this street.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

Built after WWII, the observatory site for the University of Copenhagen exhibits once world-class instruments.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.