Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A historic chapel filled with colorful murals and a colorful past.

This preserved puppy was an adorable beacon of charity.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This ancient stone necropolis is in danger of disappearing.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

These muddy eruptions are less deadly than actual volcanoes but also more holy.

A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.