Places Edited by Mike Walker

The world’s largest digital waste dump has become a site where organized criminals hack into confidential government data.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.