Places Added by Eric Grundhauser

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.