Places Edited by Annetta Black

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

An eclectic mix of influences rot together in harmony in this India necropolis.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

This medieval fortification has weathered the centuries better than any other structure from its era.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.