Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

Home of the "true" equator.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A preserved 18th century steel factory.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.