Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Prehistoric sandstone menhir with Early Bronze Age cup and ring markings, also known as Robin Hood's Stone.

A thousand year old oak tree survives in Liverpool.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

17th century puritan church with connections to the Salem Witch Trials.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A licentious look into Singapore's past, full of disorderly bric-a-brac and disreputable characters.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.