Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Explore the history of recorded sound at the world's third largest collection of Edison memorabilia.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

A model village fit for an emperor.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.