Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.

15,000 year old bison sculptures.

70 years of foreign military influence on the shores of Tripoli, Libya.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

The hottest place on the planet.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.