Places Edited by Wythe Marschall

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

The largest hewn stone in history.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.