Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.