Places Edited by Mike Bison

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.