Places Edited by Annetta Black

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A hundred and twenty year old twelve story lighthouse located on a beautiful Indonesian island.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

An island said to shake with the current.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.