Places Edited by Michael Inscoe

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

A local landmark that has become a hub of graffiti and urban exploration.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

An Ecuadorian haberdashery that sets the record straight about the so-called "Panama" hat.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.