Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.