Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An underground city of salt.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

This peaceful, round shrine in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle acts as a beacon of peace.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

A 400-square foot model of historic Quebec is the playing field for a state of the art light and sound show.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.