Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

The "Little Ones," show Portugal in full miniature splendor.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.