Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

The Last Home of an Executed King.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

"Would you like your sangria in an IV bag, or straight-up?"

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

The world's only silo that was topped by two revolving restaurants has unfortunately been demolished.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.