Places Edited by Mike Bison

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

A wild annual race in Sardinia re-enacts Constantine's victory in Rome.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A sacred lake with thousands of sacred carp and a biblical history.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.