Places Edited by Rachel James

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

Five miles of underground river link lake to ocean.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

What can compare to the comforting sound of 10,000 toilets running?

A museum dedicated to the least secret spy is actually an attempt to get Hollywood's attention.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.