Places Edited by Kavya Ram Mohan

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.