Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.