Places Edited by Rachel James

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A giant Jesus statue watches over the city of Saltillo from the top of a mountain.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.