Places Edited by Annetta Black

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

Imperial palace of Emperor Galerius, the Emperor behind the worst Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Hungarian self-built castle.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.