Places Edited by Sommer Mathis

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

This unique bridge physically lifts a piece of the road into the air to let boats pass by.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.