Places Edited by Rachel James

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.

The unusual private collection of modern-day renaissance man George Musgrave.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Home of the world's largest crocodile.

Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.