Places Edited by Michael Inscoe

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A place of remembrance for the Prime Minister that met a violent end.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The Real LegoLand.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.