Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Home of the "true" equator.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

A daily pyrotechnic celebration marks a beloved tradition during Valencia's festival season.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.