Places Edited by Mike Bison

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

These little castles each held thousands of pigeons.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

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

A supply store for traditional healers, this shop sells the hair of a dog--and its skin, skeleton, and reproductive organs, too.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.