Places Edited by Sarah Brumble

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

Where better to stay the night than inside a trio of ancient Chinese deities representing "the good life."