Places Edited by tyler

A tomb in the shape of a traditional Mexican hat and shawl for the father of modern rancheras.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.