Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

This pair of eccentric Ohio castles were built by a pair of brothers who wanted to bring a bit of class to the Ohio wilderness.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

This former limestone quarry is now a subterranean wonderland of grand stonework.