Places Edited by Mike Bison

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

The history and future of cannabis.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.