Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.