Places Edited by Daniel Sobo

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A land of debatable treasure.

A site outside Pedraza, Spain where a plaque tells a tale of seven-legged creatures that were said to have once lived in the area—in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

On Keriri/Hammond Island, a marker shares the story of an imprisoned woman and the island she saved and that eventually saved her—in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

In the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, this marker marks the severe haven of War Kangaroos that once roamed here in the fictional parallel world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

At a site that has witnessed many significant events, according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, it is best known as the place of lunar discovery.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, standing at this site just outside Vienna, Austria, the sky would have been found beneath your feet.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.