Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A marker honors the brief peace found by a tormented artist in the fictional land of Kcymaerxthaere.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

A spectacular Bulgarian cave resembling a devil's head with a waterfall rushing down its throat.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.