Places Edited by Rachel James

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Thailand's tribute to the original "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng, in the town the famous pair was born in.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.