Places Edited by Ella Morton

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Limestone grottoes turns everyday objects into stone.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.