Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

This giant underground cave chamber can only be accessed through a small opening at the top.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Dating back to 1812, this is the oldest racecourse in the Southern Hemisphere.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

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For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.