Places Edited by Annetta Black

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

One of the first sewers in the Americas.

A pre-Columbian ceremonial and astronomical site built by the Taino Indians.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The first hospital in the New World.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.