Places Edited by Allison Meier

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…