Places Edited by Martin

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Landbridge created by the South Korean version of Moses.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Temple of a million beers.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.