Places Edited by Kavya Ram Mohan

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Hidden well off the beaten path in Catalonia is this crumbling medieval castle that is slowly being covered in graffiti.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.