Places Edited by Rachel James

Sealing couples' love since just after World War I.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

These artworks take you traveling to mythical medieval Europe, the politicized grape fields of 1960s California, and deep below sea level.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.

17th century palace once a meeting place for politicians.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.