Places Edited by James Springer

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

The man who wasn't there.

Because there's no place like home.

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.