Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

London's old-school healing garden.

The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.

Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

One patriotic farmer's ode to the 9/11 tragedy remains even after the farm changed hands.