Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

An underwater city for the dead.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.