Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

The ship that got left behind.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.