Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

The world's longest known cave system.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Broken Catholic cross now worshiped in the voodoo faith.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Remote town home to Himachalis, Israelis, and tons of hashish.

First point in the Struve Geodetic Arc, a 19th century undertaking to measure the Earth's size and shape.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.