Places Edited by Allison Meier

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

The Pope’s secret escape route.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.