Places Edited by zackofalltrades

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.