Places Edited by Rachel James

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

Bold contestants slide in a rice paddy behind two charging bulls.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

This abandoned naval battery stood at the ready as recently as the 1980s.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

The loneliest island in New York.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

The world's longest wildlife overpass provides Hilversum's critters with a safe alternative to trying their luck on the roadway.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.