Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A palace destined to never house a king.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

A historical convent known for taking in bad luck babies left on its doorstep is now an upscale shopping center.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

A century-old bathhouse that provides the luxury of warm water to rural Guatemalans.

A local landmark that has become a hub of graffiti and urban exploration.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

Asia's largest limestone cave is home to a world of plastic goblins and gold mining history.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.