Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.