Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.