Places Edited by Rachel James

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This ancient stone necropolis is in danger of disappearing.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.