Places Edited by Rachel James

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.