Places Edited by Rachel James

Ancient temple is home to centuries of art and spiritual artifacts.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

A unique beach made of a myriad of multi-sized pebbles.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

30 years worth of pressed-tin, bakalite, and characters both loved and forgotten.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

Half of a house.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.