Places Edited by Mike Bison

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

These "bridges" help confused bats cross the road.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

Cities of the world and famous Thai monuments in minature.

Profile of a sleeping person four kilometers long in 250-meter-high cliffs.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Antiques by the Bay.

This mill on Lake Erie appears to shrink as a viewer approaches thanks to an optical illusion.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?