Places Edited by Dean Wiseman

A spring purported to have healing properties lies just outside Scotland's capital.

Discover diverse aquatic life and befriend resident turtles at this private diving grotto in north Florida.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

This former office building has been transformed into an immersive music venue and art space.

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

This simple stone monument honors a 19th-century tragedy.

This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.