Places Edited by Allison Meier

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

Robotic car thieves, freakish animals and huge neon floats in Northern Ireland's capital.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

Lifelike statue of the Chinese philosopher in the bathtub.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.