Places Edited by Ike Allen

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.