Places Edited by saenglish

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

A thorough look at the development and history of the underground's rolling stock of the Madrid subway system.

In this 400-year-old hotel in Madrid, you'll find a comb in every room, an old clock, and maybe a ghost.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

A collection of modern and vintage pinball machines housed in the cellar of a 15th-century building.

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

A bronze statue of the fictional character nicknamed "Mrs. Hat" from a beloved Belgian comedy.

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

A wondrous place to watch a special flower bloom.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

A 1930’s courtroom where John Dillinger and his gang went before a judge.

Walk into an underground archeological dig, the site of the Roman Forum that was once the center of Valencia.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Down this Cracovian street resides a plaque with a stark message about the city's air pollution.

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.