Places Edited by Max Cortesi

A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

Where giant ships go to die.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

These little castles each held thousands of pigeons.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

A scenic overlook of a pit mine hundreds of meters deep filled with blue water.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.