Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.