Places Added by Rachel James

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

One of the most extreme deserts in the world, these snow-free valleys harbor life, despite the hostile environment.

Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

"The Wonder From Down Under," a worm shaped museum celebrating the endangered Giant Gippsland earthworm.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

A showcase of canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and function.

Record-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

Sidney Scurvy, the interactive computer sailor, takes you on a journey to discover the everyday lives of Cook and his men.

The oldest known European structures in Australia are the remnants of a story filled with mutiny, murder, jealousy and greed.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.