Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.