Places Edited by Kit Sudol

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

An incredible little museum of interior design full of artifacts collected from around the world.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.