Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

An obelisk marks the exact center of the continent, as per the calculations of the legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This abandoned palace and the stupas around it conceal beautiful Buddhist frescoes, statues, and silk paintings.