Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

The costumes depict the Kurent, the star character of the annual Kurentovanje festival.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

The final resting place of one of the most iconic musicians of the '80s.

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

A galley-shaped memorial to the prisoners of an infamous fortress.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

This historic Mexican convent is home to a tree that grows crucifix-like thorns.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

A tribute to the hard-working men and women of Grumman, who crafted F-14 fighter jets.

One man's personal collection of more than 2,000 creepy-crawlies from around the world.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

Located in the mountains of Nicaragua, one man has spent most of life beautifying a massive cliff by hand.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.