Places Edited by Mitch Lang

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Malaysia's floating mosque.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.