Places Edited by Martin

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.