Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

This Czech military museum is home to pink tank that was once a symbol of art and political rebellion.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

This phantom island appeared on maps for over a century before amateur radio enthusiasts beat Google Earth to the punch in its "undiscovery."

The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq until ISIS blew it up twice and then drove over it with bulldozers.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.