Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

One of the largest burial mounds in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Named in tribute to Canadian singer and songwriter Neil Young.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Statue of Edgar Hernandez, the first victim of swine flu.

Eclectic musical collection ranging from hurdy gurdies and orphicas to the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.