Places Edited by Sam

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

A mecca for India's Jains.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

Roadside tribute to a staple of eastern European cuisine.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.