Places Edited by Rachel James

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.