Places Edited by Sam O'Brien

An ancient Egyptian obelisk is now used to commemorate fallen Italian soldiers.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

A southern Swedish island is home to the last ERSTA artillery battery, meant to protect the shoreline during the Cold War.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

This memorial complex contains several mass graves for victims of the Siege of Leningrad.

More than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers from across the globe call this museum home.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

A replica memorializes the site where women were punished after the last witchcraft trial in Ireland.

This antique clock once gave the most accurate time in the area.

The oldest hydroelectric plant in Czechia is now a museum.

This atmospheric spot in Pärnu's historic old town is located in a 17th-century almshouse.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.

This roadside stand packs 300-plus varieties of tomatoes, from "Maiden's Fire" to "Kaleidoscopic Jewel."

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

This medieval wine press is one of the oldest in Cyprus.

A harbor town pays tribute to a heroic wartime carrier pigeon.

Steel remnants of a bridge make up a unique sculpture along the banks of the Illinois River.

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

Once a year, a sandbar rises from the depths just in time for the world's weirdest match.

This temple contains what might be the world's oldest optical illusion.