Places Edited by Hana Glasser

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.