Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The Syrian headquarters of alleged hashish-smoking assassins.

The second largest reclining Buddha in the world got "lost" for over 120 years.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.

A wooden replica of France's famous tower.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Abandoned waterpark turned counter-culture mecca.

Medieval village and microminiature museum.

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

The island that holds the world-record for largest human massacre caused by animals.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Extraordinary animals sculpted from leftover junk.

A small house in Tazones, completely covered in shells.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

A house covered entirely with shells.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.