Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.