Places Edited by Lex Berko

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

A Romanian church built from one single oak.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

Only gap in the 30,000-mile span of roads called the Pan-American Highway.

One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.