Places Edited by Rachel James

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

Natural rock formations resembling monks in hats inspire folk legends.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

Germany's tiniest institution of education.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.