Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.