Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.