Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

The world's most famous cheese caves.