Places Edited by Sarah Durn

This traditional home is a rare example of 19th-century Korean architecture.

This Ibiza botanical garden showcases some wild machines that run on plants, literally.

This delightful attraction features over a dozen miniature train layouts which you can operate and interact with.

Even though some of the buildings date back to the Victorian era, this research institute is still involved in cutting-edge astronomy research.

Where the Border Reivers of the Johnstone clan used to hide their stolen cattle.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

A full-service gas station known as the oldest in America.

Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.

A shrine in Karachi is home to around 100 crocodiles that are regarded as sacred.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

This ancient Corinthian helmet is South Korea’s only national treasure of Western origin.

The 18th-century inspiration behind Harry Potter's Sorting Hat.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

The largest and best preserved necropolis in the Western Mediterranean.

Cathedral-like Victorian vaults are hidden within this iconic bridge.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

An abandoned 6th-century monastery features a medieval map of the known world.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

A brother statue swap has adorned this building's facade for centuries.

In 1777, two men were killed after being struck by lightning at the same time.