Places Edited by Michael Inscoe

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

Nature's slip and slide.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.