Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

This California eatery has made a name for itself by embracing Asia's rich history of eating bugs.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

From prostitutes to soldiers to business men, the dead in this graveyard are a microcosm of Singapore's history with Japan.

The first Catholic church in Singapore is a Neo-Gothic colossus with a rich architectural history.