Places Edited by Runawaydc

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.