Places Edited by schultjh

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Looking like nothing more than a cartoon deserted island, this tiny sandbar is home only to a single umbrella.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.