Places Edited by Annetta Black

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A cliff-hanging restaurant.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.