Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

Back in the tiny USSR.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.