Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.