Places Edited by SEANETTA ALLSASS

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A curious structure built just for the birds.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.