Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

The mysterious empty cupola behind the monumental arch points to an ancient prophecy of Delhi.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.