Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

The world's largest aggregation of great white sharks is at a mysterious spot in the middle of the ocean.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

The largest shot tower in Australia is a unique reminder of industrial ammunitions history.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.