Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

This lavish estate recalls the opulent history of Calcutta.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

A lonely house representing railroad history tells the stories of those who rode the rails.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Something about this Brazilian city is slightly askew... literally.