Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

A legendary rocking stone, returned to its clifftop perch.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

Orcas on display and in the water.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

Russian history in San Francisco.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

Dr. Farid Mattar's Monument of Peace.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.