Places Edited by Kavya Ram Mohan

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.