Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Record-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

An underground city of salt.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

This peaceful, round shrine in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle acts as a beacon of peace.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

Lava stone structures possibly dating back to the 19th century may have been a stopping point for voyagers between ancient Egypt and the Mayan Civilization.

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.