Places Edited by Allison Meier

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

America's first federal monument.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.