Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Unique geological formations in China, featuring some suggestive shapes.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.