Places Edited by Rebekah Otto

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

A man's home is his castle.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."