Places Edited by tyler

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.

This abandoned palace and the stupas around it conceal beautiful Buddhist frescoes, statues, and silk paintings.

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Things roll uphill on this Mexican street that seems to defy gravity.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This ancient tomb in the West Bank is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike.

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

A hotel in Taiwan based on the better business practices that can be gleaned from Jewish law.

A museum dedicated to the German scientist who revealed the significance of the mysterious Peruvian Nazca Lines.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

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