Places Edited by Rachel James

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.