Places Edited by Daniel Sobo

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.