Places Edited by Kavya Ram Mohan

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The place where World War I began.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Imperial palace of Emperor Galerius, the Emperor behind the worst Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.