Places Edited by Rachel James

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

One sculptor's lifelong war game is the largest and longest running miniature campaign in history.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.