Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.