Places Edited by Sarah Brumble

One man's little-known private clock museum hides inside a historic farmhouse, set amidst the Austrian countryside.

Explore a uniquely pristine Borneo forest, now protected by former headhunters turned tour guides.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.

This sprawling, formerly elite sporting complex in Amman, Jordan has become a local picnic spot.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.