Places Edited by Ella Morton

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

A museum and memorial built amid the rubble of a town obliterated by nature.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

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

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The ship that got left behind.

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

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?