Places Edited by Ike Allen

Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The oldest known European structures in Australia are the remnants of a story filled with mutiny, murder, jealousy and greed.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A remains of a stone shelter are a reminder of "The Worst Journey in the World."

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Two waterfalls flow down the cliff faces decorated with rare natural basalt columns.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

A neo-Gothic castle in the Argentinian countryside.

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.