Places Edited by Ella Morton

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.