Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

The remains of an attempt to carve a thriving metropolis from the forest, and once home to the first revolving door in North America.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

This heart-shaped island looks substantially less lovely after a recent bulldozing project.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.