Places Edited by Rachel James

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A city entirely devoted to illegal gun production.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.

Worlds' largest inhabited river island.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.