Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

Enchanting cave with a river crashing through the roof.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.