Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

The world’s most primitive form of bungee jumping.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.