Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.