Places Edited by Allison Meier

Tallest - but not most powerful - wind turbine in the world.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Honoring the annual National Cherry Festival.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.