Places Edited by RHF

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Political debates in a fabulous Pasadena castle.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

World's largest open air theater spans 24 acres and hosts a massive recreation of the Passion of Christ.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The place where World War I began.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.