Places Edited by Martin

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A showcase of canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and function.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.