Places Added by Allison Meier

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.