Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

This holy site either displays a centuries-old cross or a complete fake.

Seven flags adorn this Texas museum, one for each of the powers that have ruled the area.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This giant trout was made by a singular fisherman who wanted to honor his local trade.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

This attraction is devoted to the wonders of steam power and features a replica of one of its most public disasters.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.