Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.