Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.