Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Taxidermy of a famous hippo who spent three years walking over a thousand miles across South Africa.

Last stop before the top of the highest peak in the world.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

In Namibia there is an installation that explores the intertwined linguistics and existential beliefs of an imaginary community.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.