Places Edited by Samir S. Patel

Ancient man-made caves underneath small town Belgium.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.