Places Edited by Mike Portanova

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

Nepal's first aviation museum found a logical home in the most unexpected place.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world is a verdant Scottish bulwark.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This beautifully historic Bahrain fortress might not be the most popular attraction around, but that might make it all the better.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.