Places Edited by Adam Kincaid

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This eclectic collection documents the wild legacies of "America's Wickedest Street."

The manor house where the Polish composer spent childhood summer holidays is now a museum and concert hall.

Britain's only artificial surfing lake is nestled in the beautiful mountains of Wales.

An abandoned quarrying village turned commune is now a hub for learning the Welsh language.

The "shampooer of kings" who opened London's first curry cafe was a celebrity in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten now.

This 16-foot, 6-ton statue in the singer's hometown doesn't actually look like her.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Several land speed world records were shattered at this Welsh beach.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

An impromptu shrine appeared shortly after beloved "Torchwood" character Ianto Jones was killed off the show.

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

Legends say that this small island was the final resting place of the Welsh saint of lovers.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.