Places Edited by Allison Meier

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

This underground power plant looks more like a super-villian's lair than a public work.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.