Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.