Places Added by Rachel James

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

This is the house that spite built.

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

The site of a devastating modern-day mud volcano eruption that buried parts of a village.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

A spectacular Bulgarian cave resembling a devil's head with a waterfall rushing down its throat.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

Said to be the only museum in the world dedicated to the most classic of all blooms, the rose.