Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

This one-of-a-kind archeological site is home to strange prehistoric ruins, the original use of which is still a mystery.

The odd cement nubs littering this Spanish square are actually the entrances to a series of buried silos.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.