Places Added by Alex Timian

This centuries-old tree tells an unusual tale of vegetation and fertility in the desert.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Annual rush for a sacred desert lake's fish stock.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

Chemical fertilizer in agriculture's origin story begins here.