Places Edited by Alex Timian

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

An underground city of salt.

Eternal flame said to be a Hindu Goddesses fiery tounge.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

A Finnish artist's unique fauna statuary.

Climb through the life of a Mexican hero as you ascend a 130-foot statue.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A bizarre sculpture garden in the south of France.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.