Places Edited by Martin

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

These muddy eruptions are less deadly than actual volcanoes but also more holy.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.