Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.

This larger-than-life golden statue pays tribute to this town's old and new trades.

These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."

An 11th-century Byzantine church with medieval Serbian history and spectacular views.

Built in a perfect square, this archaeological site is one of the largest and best preserved ancient fortifications in India.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

The ruins of an early-18th-century complex that could once house up to 12,000 horses.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

A stone, covered in metal, commemorating an event that happened somewhere else a thousand years ago.

This subterranean town of over 50 dwellings lies thirty feet beneath the Earth's surface.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

Numerous stone coffins from different centuries, lined up in a sixth century basilica.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

The giant metal fruit was once the symbol of a large farm.

One of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet is located in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

A massive trilithon nicknamed "Stonehenge of the Pacific."

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

A museum built around the site where the most controversial human remains in the country were found.

This may be the smallest length of railway in the United Kingdom.

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.