Places Edited by Annetta Black

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.