Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Britain's answer to the NSA is based out of this deliciously-named circular headquarters.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

After suggesting criminals be burned to death on this rock, a king's advisor suffered his own punishment.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.