Places Edited by Samantha Chong

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

São Paulo's oldest magic shop has been hiding in plain sight for nearly four decades.

One of the oldest theaters in Australia, it's also said to be haunted by a performer who died on stage.

Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

This abandoned orphanage-turned-asylum witnessed a terrible chapter in Québec's history.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

This old village lock-up is known as the "round house," but it is actually octagonal.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.