Places Edited by Alex Timian

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

Spend the night inside a two-story elephant villa.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

An open-air gallery and garden in North Lebanon with plans to continue growing.

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

Open air sculptures by an eccentric and loin-clothed hermit.

A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

1800 rooms of single-family residence in Brunei.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Living inside a fearsome reptile in the Ivory Coast.