Places Edited by Martin

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

The world's most charming instant portrait studio also happens to be its smallest.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.