Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

One sculptor's lifelong war game is the largest and longest running miniature campaign in history.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

20-foot tall lamp mumbles Swedish to celebrate the holidays.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.