Places Edited by Mike Bison

A 15th-century house single-handedly disassembled then reassembled bit by bit 100 miles away.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Unusual outdoor collection of sculptures.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

Back in the tiny USSR.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.