Places Edited by Sarah Laskow

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

New York's oldest magic store.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

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

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.