Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A public display of random paleontology.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.