Places Edited by Rachel James

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

The cafe that acts as the social hub for the small volcanic island of HMS Bounty fame.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

The youngest volcano in Central America.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

The sculptural remains of the last home of a legendary Dada artist.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.