Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.

The unusual private collection of modern-day renaissance man George Musgrave.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.