Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.

The largest collection of political commercials in the world.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.