Places Edited by SEANETTA ALLSASS

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

This former football stadium seems almost abandoned but is still in use by the next generation of Scottish sports stars.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.