Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

This picturesque round lake is said to be home to the legendary Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.