Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.