Places Edited by Annetta Black

Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the middle of the Canadian prairie.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The middle finger of modernity.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

Something about this Brazilian city is slightly askew... literally.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.