Places Added by Joshua Foer

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

This record setting conveyor belt system can even be seen from space.

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.

This rough experimental house was created by flooding a dirt hill with concrete.

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

One man single-handedly dug a road right through a mountain after his wife died due to its interference.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

This California eatery has made a name for itself by embracing Asia's rich history of eating bugs.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

One sculptor's lifelong war game is the largest and longest running miniature campaign in history.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.