Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

Four alabaster giants contemplate the tides on the shore of Denmark.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.