Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

The clients of these mysterious hand-crafted funeral cars took their last ride in style.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.