Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.

This is one really big nut.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

A biblically accurate ark located beneath a Hong Kong bridge is fun for the whole Christian family.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

One of China's last communal villages wears its ideals on its sleeve.

A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.