Places Edited by Allison Meier

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Death road of Bolivia.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

The shattered remains of the world's once tallest structure.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

The most disputed archipelago in the world.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."