Places Edited by deweydell

A stone plaque and a winking pub name are all that remain to remember the victims of deadly 1836 avalanche.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.