Places Edited by Madeleine Kenyon

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

There are millions of temples in India, but only one prominent temple dedicated to the Hindu creator god.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

The subterranean sanctuary home to local shamans is a sacred site for people of all religions.

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.