Places Edited by Rachel James

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Taxidermy of a famous hippo who spent three years walking over a thousand miles across South Africa.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

Last stop before the top of the highest peak in the world.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.