Places Edited by Meg Neal

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

One of the world's largest urban rainforests with a spectacular panorama of Sao Paulo city and monkeys awaits visitors

A 16th-century convent became a contemporary art museum.

This 11th-century Cistercian abbey was once seized by Henry VIII.

A 7th-century church in northeast England built using stones from a nearby Roman fort.

Now a museum, this was once a prison facility and a hospital for the “criminally insane.”

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

A once-thriving hotel from the Old West now sits abandoned, under the threat of demolition.

Despite the name, this 16th-century structure in Galway wasn't built by the Spanish.

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

This fantastic museum honors Gloucester waterway heritage.

One of the oldest colonial buildings still standing in South America.

Built 1,500 years ago, this abandoned Mesoamerican city is surrounded by a natural wall made of outstanding rock formations.

This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.

After the state would not recreate this beloved rock formation, three New Hampshire brothers took things into their own hands.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.