Places Edited by Kavya Ram Mohan

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

Five miles of underground river link lake to ocean.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.