Places Edited by Wythe Marschall

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.