Places Edited by Chris Staring

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Right angles in the forests of Panama.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.