Places Edited by Alex Timian

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

Underwater restaurant at the coral reefs of Eilat.

Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

Hub for hallucinogenic Amazon religion.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.