Places Edited by Molly McBride Jacobson

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The mysterious large white cross visible from the runway is a memorial to a massacre during Spanish Civil War.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This quiet bird sanctuary on the Danish coast is home to something not usually found in a conservation area: hunters' cabins.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.