Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The stoutest tree in the world.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

Back in the tiny USSR.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.