Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

At one South African whaling station, this industrial extermination led to a feeding frenzy that may have even been a key inspiration for Jaws.

The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Genitals, claws, and faces are served at this Beijing eatery.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.