Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

World's largest Christmas store.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The longest trolleybus route in the world, from Simferopol and Yalta.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

A small obelisk marks the spot where Captain Sam Greele was killed by a falling tree.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."