Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.