Places Edited by Rachel James

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.