Places Edited by Alex Timian

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

Super Robot anime statue guards a forgotten suburban development in Tarragona.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.