Places Edited by Sarah Durn

This fountain has a growing (animal) population, and might also be growing in size.

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

Isaan street food staples are in spectacular form at this no-frills institution.

Once the site of medieval pilgrimage for its healing powers, this well was lost and later rediscovered.

This gravestone tells the tragic tale of its occupant's death.

Over 70 independent businesses have set up shop in this former Victorian department store.

This striking pig statue was part of a 1993 guerilla art project against racism.

Over 300 historical instruments from around the world can be found in the Royal Northern College of Music's basement.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

This gold sash was part of a massive collection of pre-Hispanic gold artifacts discovered in an isolated village in the Philippines.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

This Ocean Drive crosswalk has been paved in rainbow colors to honor the LGBTQ+ community and the man who brought pastel to Miami Beach.

Known to backpackers as the "Steps of Doom," this walkway carved into the side of a seaside cliff leads to the Roman Tombs.

This jellyfish provides clean water for an entire Dutch province.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

Legend holds that the Ancient Greek goddess of love once bathed in the waters of this grotto.

Hundreds of fiberglass structures line the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.

A peninsula on a peninsula that becomes an island at high tide.

One of the oldest Rolls-Royce automobiles in existence, this vehicle was once driven by Henry Royce himself.

A ghostly mansion in the middle of downtown Tunis.

Legend holds that a tortoise turned itself into this island to save two shipwrecked sailors.

The interior of this church has been turned into a memorial to locals who died in Croatia's Homeland War.