Places Added by Eric Grundhauser

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?

Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.