Places Edited by Rachel James

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

An underwater city for the dead.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.