Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Genitals, claws, and faces are served at this Beijing eatery.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

A repository of Pasadena history.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

A newspaper building that made radio history.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.