Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

After a night ravaged by bedbugs, it's said King John ordered the creation of this weathervane.

A semi-sterile mutant birch that became Sweden's national tree.

A condo complex once housed a boarding school with the 24th U.S. Vice President among its notable alumni.

Stockholm's famed ghost train is now on display at an art park in northern Sweden.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

The first military air station in all of Ireland hosted "battlebags."

A unique Shinto shrine filled with bunnies and wordplay.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A stuffed, prize-winning ram is all that remains of a world-renowned stud line, and a reminder of its owner's gruesome end.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

Amalfi's pre-industrial history is slowly being engulfed by the lush vegetation of the Ferriere Valley.

In this town's main square resides a statue of none other than the 43rd President of the United States.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

Blaxhall's burgeoning boulder can't help putting on a few extra stones.

A cursed torii gate still stands on the edge of Haneda Airport, decades after its shrine's relocation.

The fragmented remains of a massive public bath connected to the city's water supply.