Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.

This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

Trash-filled shrines to an unofficial saint known for her endless breast milk dot the highways of Argentina.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

London's Victorian Tower of Babel.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

One of the world's largest malls has been almost completely empty since its opening.

Bible stories are brought to life with gloriously cartoonish kitsch in this South American theme park.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.