Places Edited by Blindcolour

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

A huge stone pyramid built for fun.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.