Places Edited by Rachel James

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

1% of Greenland's entire population used to live in this single building, which is now slated for demolition.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.