Places Edited by Tao Tao Holmes

A park in Mexico offers all the experiences of an illegal border crossing except for one: the border.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

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

Where giant ships go to die.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Venice's island of the dead.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.