Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

A geometric jumble of homes.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.