Places Edited by Allison Meier

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.