Places Edited by Rachel James

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

Home of the "true" equator.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.