Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Beer lover's can-covered house.