Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Despite producing just a handful of movies, a brave and lyrical filmmaker has an entire museum dedicated to him.

The largest garbage dump in all of Central America is home to a tragic community that make their living from the refuse.

This former quarry is now a vibrant labyrinth of magical in situ sculptures.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

This century old flensing port is a remnant of a culture for whom whaling is still legal.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This giant Cold War satellite dish has become a symbol of Trinidad's need for sovereignty.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.