Places Edited by Mike Bison

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

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

Where giant ships go to die.

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

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

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.

A student driver's nightmare.

Tiny Swedish village with a distinct local phenomenon known as an "Elk Shower."

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.