Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Temple of a million beers.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

This memorial to a horrific ship collision sits over a mass grave holding dozens of the victims.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.