Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

Sitting right on the border between East and West Jerusalem this modern art museum is in itself a symbol of Israel's hoped-for unity.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.