Places Edited by RouxBedrosian

A free museum of Toronto’s untold music history hidden inside a drugstore.

A less famous, short-lived meeting spot of the Inklings.

Look up as you explore Baku’s old town to find a monument to the local feline population.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

Legend claims these are the heads of executed criminals, magically turned to stone.

This train station meeting spot is an actual, millennia-old tree from the island of Yakushima.

After a long legal battle, the heart of the famous composer is finally enthroned in the city of his birth.

Visitors are encouraged to fish for water goblins at this haunted pool.

One of the largest sandsculpture installations in the world, this exhibit boasts a unique combination of sprawling sand scenes, theological musings, and salvaged shipwrecks.

Set up in 1953, abandoned in 1978, and became a movie set in 2009.

This enchanting spring, steeped in local lore and a touch of royal history, was said to be the place where newborns were collected, rather than being delivered by storks.

This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.

This small canyon is home to a treasure trove of geological oddities.

Mysterious markers have been giving the public a lesson in dendrochronology for over a century.

The final resting place of Dicky Pearce, the last court jester in England.

A limestone cave filled with impressive formations in Mole Creek Karst National Park.

A place where you can symbolically rid yourself of negative thoughts and attitudes.

This subway station is named after a local legend about supernatural dancing cats.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

Every spring, this walkway outside the Japan Mint turns into a cherry blossom tunnel.

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.