Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

"The country that ate itself."

Underwater volcanic eruption forms new island off the coast of Tonga.

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.