Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

The Real LegoLand.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

Historic slum of Tartu.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

Power line with pylons on huge concrete bases to prevent terrorist attacks.