Places Edited by Ike Allen

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.