Places Edited by tyler

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.

An homage to the humble watering can.