Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This castle-fortress is a living example of the transition from medieval defenses to modern fortifications.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

The highest peak in Northern Ireland is topped with a stone tower and haunting burial mounds.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.