Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

The magic's in the hole!

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Where giant ships go to die.

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

A student driver's nightmare.