Places Edited by Sarah Durn

Hidden underground, a remarkable 10th-century bath complex survives virtually unaltered.

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

This museum celebrates the history of Japanese advertising, from feudal business tricks to modern T.V. commercials.

Artist Scott Hocking took a dilapidated 1890s barn to create his massive "Barnboat."

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

This ordinary-looking rock may have played an important role in a 16th-century Scottish battle.

An Art Deco Icarus statue adorns this abandoned gem of Yugoslav Modernist architecture.

A 15th-century park that recreates a bit of the Holy Land in Italy.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Visit Lima’s one-stop-shop for sustainably sourced and produced Peruvian chocolate.

One man's collection of found art, sculpture, and ephemera adorns his two side-by-side homes.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

A former travertine mine traces the geological history of this unique desert filled with crystalline blue pools.

A converted hangar displays dozens of helicopters, from a famous 1943 rescue chopper to several autogyros.

Housed in a stunning Victorian building, this museum has the largest exhibition of knives, blades, penknives, and scissors in Spain.

A hidden gallery exhibits intricate, decades-old Buddhist reliefs.

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.

A small United Arab Emirates territory within an Omani enclave within the United Arab Emirates.