Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

A thriving artist's wonderland located just 6 kilometers from Korea's DMZ.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.