Places Added by Eric Grundhauser

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

A historic house devoted to the teachings of a 1700's prophetess and her mysterious box of revelations.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Rumored to be the famed pirate's lookout tower, this historic stone structure is now just watching for tourists.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.