Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

An artist's statement of new uses for ordinary and discarded materials.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.