Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

A sacred lake with thousands of sacred carp and a biblical history.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

These "bridges" help confused bats cross the road.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Antiques by the Bay.

This mill on Lake Erie appears to shrink as a viewer approaches thanks to an optical illusion.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.