Places Edited by Martin

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.