Places Edited by Rachel James

The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

The ship that got left behind.

"They died with their boots on."

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An underground city of salt.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

The Rozenberg wind wall in South Holland makes for smooth sailing through the Calandbrug canal.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The Gaudí-inspired building that was the start of Terrassenc modernism.