Places Edited by Allison Meier

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.