Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.