Places Edited by Michael Inscoe

Two 2,500-year-old Phoenician boats found on the coast of Spain, giving incredible insight into the ancient maritime traders.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The historic cave is both a symbol of superstition and black magic and inspired one of the early Christian converts in Botswana.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.