Places Edited by rikwilliams

Visitors to Kuala Lumpur can drink in the city’s offerings at the Royal Selangor pewter factory.

According to a local story, this tree's blossoms signal the end of war.

Watch butterflies take flight before you fly.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

All unmarked mute swans on the Thames are owned by the Queen per a tradition that began in the 12th century.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

The unusual private collection of modern-day renaissance man George Musgrave.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.