Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.

The unusual private collection of modern-day renaissance man George Musgrave.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.