Places Edited by Mike Bison

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Burlesque Hospital Themed Restaurant.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.