Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

The little house that stood up to a disastrous flood has become a symbol of perseverance.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

Museum houses an impressive display of the origin and artistry from the now-quaint invention's history.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

This limestone cave offers an incredible view of the Río Grande de Arecibo valley.

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

East London art gallery showcasing contemporary art from Europe's Eastern Bloc.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

America's first federal monument.

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.