Places Edited by Wythe Marschall

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

The world's foremost museum dedicated entirely to the abacus.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

An island said to shake with the current.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Two bulls enter. One leaves a champion—but neither loses its life.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.