Places Edited by Sarah Brumble

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

"The country that ate itself."

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.