Places Edited by Osage

An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.

A sinuous path among steep cliffs creates a stunning sight in southwestern Serbia.

A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

An engineering masterpiece, or “Scheme of Madness?”

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

Nestled in the jungles of Vanuatu are the remains of what was once a cannibal oven.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

A flower grows on this giant stone that is said be able to control minds.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.