Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Buddha and Jesus tower over this French mountainside headquarters of the Aumism religious cult.

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Landbridge created by the South Korean version of Moses.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.