Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.