Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

The exorbitant price of paradise.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The lesser-known cousin of the Great Pacific trash island.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

This Canary island is a quintessential example of nature’s beauty, and its unbridled fury.

Indiana's shrine to the sport that has become a hallmark of their culture.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.