Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A thriving artist's wonderland located just 6 kilometers from Korea's DMZ.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.