Places Edited by Martin

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.