Places Edited by AllisonEng

A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.

Hidden out of public view in the National Library of Israel is a collection of "Stalag's," 1960s Nazi themed porno paperbacks written and consumed by Israelis.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

The dead gigantic radio tower of Liberia.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.